The first gospel in every surviving list, and the one most anchored in the Hebrew scriptures: it quotes them more than forty times and keeps saying that a thing happened “that it might be fulfilled”. Tradition from the second century assigns it to Matthew the publican, named in its own ninth chapter.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. St Matthew shares wording with 6 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal ofMatthew 21 and Homily 66
For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be openedMatthew 7 and Luke 11
shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me: it were better for him that a millstoneMatthew 18 and Mark 9
and a wine drinker: a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justifiedMatthew 11 and Sermon 39
at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than JonasMatthew 12 and Book 22
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knockethMatthew 7 and Book 12
Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Gregory Martin / Challoner, 1750. Source: Gutenberg 8347.
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