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</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Matthew 7:13</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="float: left;">← <a href="Matthew_7%3A12" title="Matthew 7:12">7:12</a></div><div style="float: right;"><a href="Matthew_7%3A14" title="Matthew 7:14">7:14</a> →</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption"><div style="width: 240px; text-align: center; line-height: 1em"><i>Der breite und der schmale Weg</i> ("the broad and the narrow road"), from 1866.</div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Book</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Christian Bible part</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Matthew 7:13</b> is the thirteenth <a href="Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible" title="Chapters and verses of the Bible">verse</a> of <a href="Matthew_7" title="Matthew 7">the seventh chapter</a> of the <a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a> in the <a href="New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> and is part of the <a href="Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%2013:24&version=nrsv">Luke 13:24</a> has similar wording in relation to the narrow door or gate.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>In the <a href="King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> of the <a href="Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> the text reads:

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<dl><dd>Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,</dd>

<dd>that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:</dd></dl>

<p>The <a href="World_English_Bible" title="World English Bible">World English Bible</a> translates the passage as:

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<dl><dd>Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the</dd>

<dd>way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.</dd></dl>

<p>The <a href="Novum_Testamentum_Graece" title="Novum Testamentum Graece">Novum Testamentum Graece</a> text is:

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<dl><dd>Εἰσέλθατε διὰ τῆς στενῆς πύλης· ὅτι πλατεῖα ἡ πύλη</dd>

<dd>καὶ εὐρύχωρος ἡ ὁδὸς ἡ ἀπάγουσα εἰς τὴν ἀπώλειαν, καὶ πολλοί εἰσιν οἱ εἰσερχόμενοι δι’ αὐτῆς·</dd></dl>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translation_and_interpretation">Translation and interpretation</h2></div>

<p>The word here translated as <i>gate</i> (<a href="Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">πύλης</span>, <i>pylēs</i>) refers to the large entrance to a city or a temple. In the New Testament era many cities had walls, and entry was only allowed through the <a href="City_gates" class="mw-redirect" title="City gates">city gates</a>. The same word is used for the gate of the temple in <a href="Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ulrich Luz notes that the idea of the gates of heaven was in existence at the time of Jesus, and this verse may be a reference to that notion.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The metaphor of God providing two ways, one good and one evil, was a common one in the Jewish literature of the period. It appears in the <a href="Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Deuteronomy%2030:19&version=nrsv">Deuteronomy 30:19</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Jeremiah%2021:8&version=nrsv">Jeremiah 21:8</a>. A somewhat similar metaphor appears at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%2013:24&version=nrsv">Luke 13:24</a>. The context and phrasing of Luke are quite different from that here in Matthew, and Davies and Allison suggest that this makes it less likely that this saying comes from <a href="Q_(source)" class="mw-redirect" title="Q (source)">Q</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luz supports the idea that the two gate metaphor was present in Q, and that the author of Matthew merged it with the well known two paths metaphor to create this verse.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>This verse, with its reference to the destruction in store for those following the wrong path, is typically seen as <a href="Eschatological" class="mw-redirect" title="Eschatological">eschatological</a>, implying that the destination for those who take the easy way is punishment by God. Davies and Allison note that J.D.M. Derrett supports a very different interpretation. He argues that if the metaphor is referring to the entrance to a city or to a gate in the middle of the road, that this implies that the ultimate destination is the same. Once both groups are through the gate they will find themselves in the same place. Derrett thus argues that this metaphor states that it is the journey of the sinner which is hard and destructive, but that after facing this turbulent journey the sinner, like the pious, will ultimately find God's grace.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commentary_from_the_Church_Fathers">Commentary from the Church Fathers</h2></div>

<p><a href="Augustine" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustine">Augustine</a>: The Lord had warned us above to have a heart single and pure with which to seek God; but as this belongs to but few, He begins to speak of finding out wisdom. For the searching out and contemplation whereof there has been formed through all the foregoing such an eye as may discern the narrow way and strait gate; whence He adds, Enter ye in at the strait gate.<sup id="cite_ref-Commentary_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Commentary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><a href="Glossa_Ordinaria" title="Glossa Ordinaria">Glossa Ordinaria</a>: Though it be hard to do to another what you would have done to yourself; yet so must we do, that we may enter the strait gate.<sup id="cite_ref-Commentary_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Commentary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><a href="Pseudo-Chrysostom" title="Pseudo-Chrysostom">Pseudo-Chrysostom</a>: Otherwise; This third precept again is connected with the right method of fasting, and the order of discourse will be this; But thou when thou fastest anoint thy head; and after comes, Enter ye in at the strait gate. For there are three chief passions in our nature, that are most adhering to the flesh; the desire of food and drink; the love of the man towards the woman; and thirdly, sleep. These it is harder to cut off from the fleshly nature than the other passions. And therefore abstinence from no other passion so sanctifies the body as that a man should be chaste, abstinent, and continuing in watchings. On account therefore of all these righteousnesses, but above all on account of the most toilsome fasting, it is that He says, Enter ye in at the strait gate. The gate of perdition is the Devil, through whom we enter into hell; the gate of life is Christ, through whom we enter into the kingdom of Heaven. The Devil is said to be a wide gate, not extended by the mightiness of his power, but made broad by the license of his unbridled pride. Christ is said to be a strait gate not with respect to smallness of power, but to His humility; for He whom the whole world contains not, shut Himself within the limits of the Virgin's womb. The way of perdition is sin of any kind It is said to be broad, because it is not contained within the rule of any discipline, but they that walk therein follow whatever pleases them. The way of life is all righteousness, and is called narrow for the contrary reasons. It must be considered that unless one walk in the way, he cannot arrive at the gate; so they that walk not in the way of righteousness, it is impossible that they should truly know Christ. Likewise neither does he run into the hands of the Devil, unless he walks in the way of sinners.<sup id="cite_ref-Commentary_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Commentary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_commentaries">Modern commentaries</h2></div>

<p><a href="Charles_Ellicott" title="Charles Ellicott">Charles Ellicott</a> and <a href="Heinrich_August_Wilhelm_Meyer" title="Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer">Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer</a> both saw a connection between the <i>strait gate</i> of Matthew 7:13 and Jesus's declaration "I am the gate" in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%2010:9&version=nrsv">John 10:9</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The eighteenth-century hymn-writer <a href="Isaac_Watts" title="Isaac Watts">Isaac Watts</a> referred to the broad and narrow ways in his hymn "Broad is the Road".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Eye_of_a_needle" title="Eye of a needle">Eye of a needle</a></li>

<li><a href="Didache#The_Two_Ways" title="Didache">Didache#The Two Ways</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marginal note in <a href="Jerusalem_Bible" title="Jerusalem Bible">Jerusalem Bible</a> (1966) at Luke 13:24</span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Luz, Ulrich. <i>Matthew 1-7: A Commentary</i>, trans. Wilhelm C. Linss. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortess, 1989.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Davies, W.D. and Dale C. Allison, Jr. <i>A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew</i>. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1988-1997.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Luz, Ulrich. <i>Matthew 1-7: A Commentary.</i> trans. Wilhlem C. Linss. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortess, 1989.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Davies, W.D. and Dale C. Allison, Jr. <i>A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew</i>. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1988-1997.</span>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/p1catenaaureacom01thomuoft/page/n19/mode/2up">"Catena Aurea: commentary on the four Gospels; collected out of the works of the Fathers. Oxford: Parker, 1874. Thomas Aquinas"</a>.</cite> <span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the <a href="Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>.</span>

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<td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;">Preceded by<br><b><a href="Matthew_7%3A12" title="Matthew 7:12">Matthew 7:12</a></b>

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<td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a><br><a href="Matthew_7" title="Matthew 7">Chapter 7</a></b>

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<td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;">Succeeded by<br><b><a href="Matthew_7%3A14" title="Matthew 7:14">Matthew 7:14</a></b>

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</style><div id="Gospel_of_Matthew_chapter_7567" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a><a href="Matthew_7" title="Matthew 7"> chapter 7</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Verse</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Matthew_7%3A1" title="Matthew 7:1">Matthew 7:1</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Galilee" title="Galilee">Galilee</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Golden_Rule" title="Golden Rule">Golden Rule</a></li>

<li><a href="Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a></li>

<li><a href="Wolf_in_sheep's_clothing" title="Wolf in sheep's clothing">Wolf in sheep's clothing</a></li></ul>

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<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 1px;" class=""><a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a></td>

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<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Gospel_of_Matthew123" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Gospel_of_Matthew123" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a><br>(<a href="New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chapters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Matthew_1" title="Matthew 1">Matthew 1</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Verses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Matthew 1</li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events<br>and phrases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">Jesus' birth</a>

<ul><li><a href="Star_of_Bethlehem" title="Star of Bethlehem">Star of Bethlehem</a></li>

<li><a href="Flight_into_Egypt" title="Flight into Egypt">Flight into Egypt</a></li>

<li><a href="Massacre_of_the_Innocents" title="Massacre of the Innocents">Massacre of the Innocents</a></li>

<li><a href="Return_of_the_family_of_Jesus_to_Nazareth" title="Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth">Return to Nazareth</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Kingdom_of_heaven_(Gospel_of_Matthew)" title="Kingdom of heaven (Gospel of Matthew)">Kingdom of heaven</a></li>

<li><a href="Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">Baptism</a></li>

<li><a href="Temptation_of_Christ" title="Temptation of Christ">Temptation</a></li>

<li><a href="Return_of_Jesus_to_Galilee" title="Return of Jesus to Galilee">Galilean ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Fishers_of_men" title="Fishers of men">Fishers of men</a></li>

<li><a href="Ecce_homo#Eastern_Christianity" title="Ecce homo">Behold the bridegroom</a></li>

<li><a href="Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a>

<ul><li><a href="Beatitudes" title="Beatitudes">Beatitudes</a></li>

<li><a href="Lord's_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a></li>

<li><a href="Golden_Rule" title="Golden Rule">Golden Rule</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jesus_preaches_in_a_ship" title="Jesus preaches in a ship">Jesus preaches in a ship</a></li>

<li><a href="Calming_the_storm" title="Calming the storm">Calming the storm</a></li>

<li><a href="Feeding_the_multitude" title="Feeding the multitude">Feeding the multitude</a></li>

<li><a href="Jesus_walking_on_water" title="Jesus walking on water">Walking on water</a></li>

<li><a href="Transfiguration_of_Jesus" title="Transfiguration of Jesus">Transfiguration</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Commandment" title="Great Commandment">Great Commandment</a></li>

<li><a href="Olivet_Discourse" title="Olivet Discourse">Olivet Discourse</a></li>

<li><a href="Parable_of_the_Ten_Virgins" title="Parable of the Ten Virgins">Ten Virgins</a></li>

<li><a href="Anointing_of_Jesus" title="Anointing of Jesus">Anointing</a></li>

<li><a href="Passion_of_Jesus" title="Passion of Jesus">Passion of Jesus</a></li>

<li><a href="Last_Supper" title="Last Supper">Last Supper</a></li>

<li><a href="Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion of Jesus</a></li>

<li><a href="Burial_of_Jesus" title="Burial of Jesus">Burial</a></li>

<li><a href="Empty_tomb" title="Empty tomb">Empty tomb</a></li>

<li><a href="Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Commission" title="Great Commission">Great Commission</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Andrew_the_Apostle" title="Andrew the Apostle">Andrew</a></li>

<li><a href="Caiaphas" title="Caiaphas">Caiaphas</a></li>

<li><a href="Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">Herod</a></li>

<li><a href="James%2C_son_of_Zebedee" class="mw-redirect" title="James, son of Zebedee">James</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeremiah" title="Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a></li>

<li><a href="Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus Christ</a></li>

<li><a href="John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint_Joseph" title="Saint Joseph">Joseph</a></li>

<li><a href="Judas_Iscariot" title="Judas Iscariot">Judas Iscariot</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene">Mary Magdalene</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_of_Bethany" title="Mary of Bethany">Mary, sister of Martha</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthew_the_Apostle" title="Matthew the Apostle">Matthew</a></li>

<li><a href="Philip_the_Apostle" title="Philip the Apostle">Philip</a></li>

<li><a href="Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a></li>

<li><a href="Rachel" title="Rachel">Rachel</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Simon Peter</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_the_Apostle" title="Thomas the Apostle">Thomas</a></li>

<li><a href="Zebedee" title="Zebedee">Zebedee</a></li></ul>

<dl><dd>Groups</dd>

<dd><a href="Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="Angels">Angels</a></dd>

<dd><a href="Pharisees" title="Pharisees">Pharisees</a></dd>

<dd><a href="Sadducees" title="Sadducees">Sadducees</a></dd>

<dd><a href="Sanhedrin" title="Sanhedrin">Sanhedrin</a></dd></dl>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bethany" title="Bethany">Bethany</a></li>

<li><a href="Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a></li>

<li><a href="Bethsaida" title="Bethsaida">Bethsaida</a></li>

<li><a href="Capernaum" title="Capernaum">Capernaum</a></li>

<li><a href="Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></li>

<li><a href="Galilee" title="Galilee">Galilee</a></li>

<li><a href="Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></li>

<li><a href="Jordan_River" title="Jordan River">Jordan River</a></li>

<li><a href="Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a></li>

<li><a href="Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a></li>

<li><a href="Sea_of_Galilee" title="Sea of Galilee">Sea of Galilee</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Q_source" title="Q source">Q source</a></li>

<li><a href="M_source" title="M source">M source</a></li>

<li><a href="Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a></li>

<li><a href="Textual_variants_in_the_Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Textual variants in the Gospel of Matthew">Textual variants</a></li>

<li><a href="Augustinian_hypothesis" title="Augustinian hypothesis">Augustinian hypothesis</a></li>

<li><a href="Two-gospel_hypothesis" title="Two-gospel hypothesis">Two-gospel hypothesis</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthean_Posteriority_hypothesis" title="Matthean Posteriority hypothesis">Matthean Posteriority</a></li>

<li><a href="Genealogy_of_Jesus" title="Genealogy of Jesus">Genealogy of Jesus</a></li>

<li><a href="Five_Discourses_of_Matthew" title="Five Discourses of Matthew">Five Discourses of Matthew</a></li>

<li><a href="Calling_of_Matthew" title="Calling of Matthew">Calling of Matthew</a></li>

<li><a href="Kingdom_of_heaven_(Gospel_of_Matthew)" title="Kingdom of heaven (Gospel of Matthew)">Kingdom of heaven</a></li>

<li><a href="Immanuel" title="Immanuel">Immanuel</a></li>

<li><a href="Gospel_of_Pseudo-Matthew" title="Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew">Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew</a></li>

<li><a href="Rabbinical_translations_of_Matthew" title="Rabbinical translations of Matthew">Rabbinical translations</a>

<li><a href="Joseph_Smith%E2%80%93Matthew" title="Joseph Smith–Matthew">Joseph Smith–Matthew</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="St_Matthew_Passion" title="St Matthew Passion">St Matthew Passion</a></i> (Bach, 1727/29)

<ul><li><a href="St_Matthew_Passion_structure" title="St Matthew Passion structure">Structure</a></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Gospel_According_to_St._Matthew_(film)" title="The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)">The Gospel According to St. Matthew</a></i> (1964 film)</li>

<li><i><a href="Godspell" title="Godspell">Godspell</a></i> (1971 musical)</li>

<li><i><a href="Godspell_(film)" title="Godspell (film)">Godspell</a></i> (1973 film)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Visual_Bible%3A_Matthew" title="The Visual Bible: Matthew">The Visual Bible: Matthew</a></i> (1993 film)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Manuscripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Papyrus_1" title="Papyrus 1">Papyrus 1</a></li>

<li><a href="Magdalen_papyrus" title="Magdalen papyrus">Magdalen papyrus</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sources</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/el:%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF%CE%BD" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:el:Κατά Ματθαίον">Greek Text</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/la:Biblia_Sacra_Vulgata_(Stuttgartensia)/Matthaeus" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:la:Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Stuttgartensia)/Matthaeus">Latin Vulgate</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe)/Matthew" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:Bible (Wycliffe)/Matthew">Wycliffe Version</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Matthew" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:Bible (King James)/Matthew">King James Version</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Matthew" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Matthew">American Standard Version</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(World_English)/Matthew" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:Bible (World English)/Matthew">World English Version</a></li></ul>

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