Author: Rich Gorecki

My year-long journey through The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, continues with the Gospel of Matthew. In my prior post with an Introduction to The Gospels, I gave an overview of these first four books in the New Testament. As you read this post and the upcoming posts on the Gospels from Mark, Luke, and John, look at how each is written. See how each author addresses a different original audience from a different perspective to accomplish a different purpose. About Matthew Like many books of the Bible, the Gospel of Matthew is “officially” anonymous, meaning, the author never reveals his or her name directly in the text. This was a common practice in the ancient world that valued community more than individual achievements. That said, the early church and most scholars are unanimous in their acceptance of Matthew as the writer of the first Gospel.  Matthew, also known

This year-long journey through The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, brings us to the most important set of books in the Christian Bible: The Gospels. In this post, I introduce you to the first four books of the New Testament that followed a time period after the Old Testament called the “400 years of silence.”  Its “Good News” The word Gospel comes from the Greek word ευαγγέλια (pronounced evangélia) which means “good news”. The Gospels are the written accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. The Greek was later rendered into Latin as “evangelium” for use in the Vulgate, the late-4th-century Latin translation that became the Catholic Church’s official Latin Bible which is still used today in the Latin Church. In Old English, the Greek was translated as “gōdspel” (gōd “good” + spel “news”) and retained as “gospel” in many