In Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches ... before the women and directs them to tell the disciples to meet him in Galilee. The disciples go the mountain -- just as Jesus himself ...

He finds that Mark ends with the women fleeing and telling nobody. Is that the way Matthew tells it? No. He has Jesus meet the women. And now the women, then, go and tell.... And the last scene in ...

Then they arrested Jesus. One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear. “Put your sword back in its place” Jesus said to him ...

This gospel was written by a Jew, Matthew the tax-collector, for a Jewish Christian audience. The narrative closely follows the life of Jesus from his birth, through his ministry and unto his ...