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NASB	Matthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
AMPLIFIED 2015	Matthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son (descendant) of David, the son (descendant) of Abraham: [Ps 132:11; Is 11:1]

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Bible Question: what is the summary of matthew?

Bible Answer: It was published before the destruction of Jerusalem, a.d. 70.—Alford. We would place our present Gospel between a.d. 60 and 66. If there was an original Hebrew Gospel, an earlier date belongs to it.—Ellicott. 4. Its object.—This Gospel was probably written in Palestine for Jewish Christians. It is an historical proof that Jesus is the Messiah. Matthew is the Gospel for the Jew. It is the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah of the prophets. This Gospel takes the life of Jesus as it was lived on earth, and his character as it actually appeared, and places them alongside the life and character of the Messiah as sketched in the prophets, the historic by the side of the prophetic, that the two may appear in their marvellous unity and in their perfect identity.—Professor Gregory.
The Jewish historian Josephus furnishes an illustration of the fate of the Hebrew original of Matthew. Josephus himself informs us that he wrote his great work, “The History of the Jewish Wars,” originally in Hebrew, his native tongue, for the benefit of his own nation, and he afterward translated it into Greek. No notices of the Hebrew original now survive.—Professor D. S. Gregory. 3. The date.—The testimony of the early Church is unanimous that Matthew wrote first among the evangelists. Irenæus relates that Matthew wrote his Gospel while Peter and Paul were preaching, and founding the Church at Rome, after a.d. 61.
William Smith; revised and edited by F.N. and M.A. Peloubet, Smith’s Bible dictionary electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997.