The apostle Matthew — traditionally identified as a tax collector who became a disciple of Jesus and whose Gospel (written for a Jewish Christian audience) presents Jesus as the fulfillment of Hebrew prophecy and the teacher of the new law in the Sermon on the Mount.
The Gospel of Matthew contains the Sermon on the Mount — the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, 'Love your enemies' — which is the most comprehensive account of Jesus's ethical teaching and the central text for understanding Jesus as moral teacher.
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