This gospel was written by a Jew, Matthew the tax-collector, for a Jewish Christian audience ... into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have ...

Matthew's gospel is clearly written for a Jewish Christian audience living within ... just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements in this story that resemble Moses' traditions ...

The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was probably a Jewish Christian ... but is supplemented with sayings material, another written source known as "M," and possibly other material ...