The Argument of the Gospel According to St. Matthew

S. Matthew's Gospel may be well divided into five parts. The first part, as touching the Infancy of our Lord Jesus: Chap. 1. and 2. The second, of the preparation that was made to his manifestation: chap. 3. and a piece of the 4. The third, of his manifesting of himself by preaching and miracles, and that in Galilee: the other piece of the 4. chap. unto the 19. The fourth, of his coming into Jury, toward his Passion: chap. 19. and 20. The fifth, of the Holy Week of his Passion in Hierusalem: chap. 21. unto the end of the book.

Of S. Matthew we have Mat. 9. Mar. 2. Lu. 5: How being before a Publican, he was called of our Lord, and made a Disciple. Then Luk. 6. Mar. 3. Mat. 10: How out of the whole number of the Disciples he was chosen to be one of the twelve Apostles. And out of them again he was chosen (and none but he and S. John) to be one of the four Evangelists. Among which four also, he was the first that wrote, about 8 or 10 years after Christ's Ascension.