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Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. How would we know of his life without the Gospels? The Gospels give people insight to the way Jesus lived his life, and how it was taken away so that we all may live. There are four different Gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and each has their own unique vision of Jesus’s life. Matthew’s Gospel is the most read, his is also the longest and most complete of the four. Also, Matthew wrote for the Jews of the time to try to get them to convert. He refers a lot to their own traditions to help them bridge the gap from Judaism to Christianity. One passage in particular sticks out as a wonderful example of how Matthew tried to bridge this gap, the “Tradition of the Elders”. Matthew’s main goal was to show the Jews of the time that Jesus was the true Lord and Messiah, the one that they had been waiting for. He uses a lot of references to the Old Testament to give a sort of familiarity to his Gospel. He also picks out a lot of specific scripture to show that Jesus is indeed the one that they have been waiting for. Matthew begins his Gospel with Jesus’s genealogy, which ca