--- title: "Gospel of Matthew: Summary & All 28 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/ description: "The Gospel of Matthew, one of the four Gospels, in 28 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 28 chapters, and the full text free." --- New Testament # The Gospel of Matthew The Gospel of Matthew is the first of the 27 books of the New Testament: 28 chapters and 1,070 verses. [Start reading: Matthew 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/1/) Chapters 1–28: [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/1/) … [28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/) ## About Matthew About Matthew · Gospel Matthew tells the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus for readers steeped in the Old Testament, presenting him at every turn as the fulfillment of Israel's story — the new and greater Moses teaching from the mountain. Ancient tradition names the apostle Matthew, the converted tax collector; scholars note the Gospel also draws on Mark and dates it a generation or more after the events. It was written to teach a mixed church how to live as disciples, gathering Jesus' words into five great discourses, and it alone among the Gospels speaks of the Church by name. *Matthew in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | New Testament — book 1 of 27, 47 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 28 | | Verses | 1,070, as Bless numbers them | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 28 chapters · 75 notes | | Catechism | 302 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 28 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [Matthew 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/1/) 25 verses The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin. 2. ### [Matthew 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/2/) 23 verses The offerings of the wise men: the flight into Egypt: the massacre of the Innocents. 3. ### [Matthew 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/3/) 17 verses The preaching of John: Christ is baptized. 4. ### [Matthew 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/4/) 25 verses Christ's fast of forty days: He is tempted. He begins to preach, to call disciples to him, and to work miracles. 5. ### [Matthew 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/) 48 verses Christ's sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes. 6. ### [Matthew 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/) 34 verses A continuation of the sermon on the mount. 7. ### [Matthew 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/7/) 29 verses The third part of the sermon on the mount. 8. ### [Matthew 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/8/) 34 verses Christ cleanses the leper, heals the centurion's servant, Peter's mother-in-law, and many others: he stills the storm at sea, drives the devils out of two men possessed, and suffers them to go into the swine. 9. ### [Matthew 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/9/) 38 verses Christ heals one sick of palsy: calls Matthew: cures the issue of blood: raises to life the daughter of Jairus: gives sight to two blind men: and heals a dumb man possessed by the devil. 10. ### [Matthew 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/10/) 42 verses Christ sends out his twelve apostles, with the power of miracles. The lessons he gives them. 11. ### [Matthew 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) 30 verses John sends his disciples to Christ, who upbraids the Jews for their incredulity, and calls to him such as are sensible of their burdens. 12. ### [Matthew 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/12/) 50 verses Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their attributing his miracles to Satan. 13. ### [Matthew 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/13/) 58 verses The parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc. 14. ### [Matthew 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/14/) 36 verses Herod puts John to death. Christ feeds five thousand in the desert. He walks upon the sea, and heals all the diseased with the touch of his garment. 15. ### [Matthew 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/15/) 39 verses Christ reproves the Scribes. He cures the daughter of the woman of Canaan: and many others: and feeds four thousand with seven loaves. 16. ### [Matthew 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/16/) 28 verses Christ refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign from heaven. Peter's confession is rewarded. He is rebuked for opposing Christ's passion. All his followers must deny themselves. 17. ### [Matthew 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/17/) 26 verses The Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells his passion; and pays the didrachma. 18. ### [Matthew 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/18/) 35 verses Christ teaches humility, to beware of scandal, and to flee the occasions of sin: to denounce to the church incorrigible sinners, and to look upon such as refuse to hear the church as heathens. He promises to his disciples the power of binding and loosing: and that he will be in the midst of their assemblies. No forgiveness for them that will not forgive. 19. ### [Matthew 19](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/19/) 30 verses Christ declares matrimony to be indissoluble: he recommends the making one's self an eunuch for the kingdom of heaven; and parting with all things for him. He shews the danger of riches, and the reward of leaving all to follow him. 20. ### [Matthew 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/20/) 34 verses The parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The ambition of the two sons of Zebedee. Christ gives sight to two blind men. 21. ### [Matthew 21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/21/) 46 verses Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and sellers out of the temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the priests and scribes. 22. ### [Matthew 22](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/) 46 verses The parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to Caesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment in the law and puzzles the Pharisees. 23. ### [Matthew 23](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/23/) 39 verses Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad example of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to imitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their hypocrisy and blindness. 24. ### [Matthew 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/24/) 51 verses Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that shall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always watch. 25. ### [Matthew 25](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/) 46 verses The parable of the ten virgins and of the talents. The description of the last judgment. 26. ### [Matthew 26](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/26/) 75 verses The Jews conspire against Christ. He is anointed by Mary. The treason of Judas. The last supper. The prayer in the garden. The apprehension of our Lord. His treatment in the house of Caiphas. 27. ### [Matthew 27](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/27/) 66 verses The continuation of the history of the passion of Christ. His death and burial. 28. ### [Matthew 28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/) 20 verses The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples. Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries In the comments ## What the saints *said.* 47 quotations from 28 saints linked to passages of Matthew in Bless. Each names the work it comes from. [St. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/) · on [Matthew 6:7](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v7) On this verse > Let our speech and petition when we pray be under discipline, observing quietness and modesty. Let us consider that we are standing in God's sight. On the Lord's Prayer, 4, c. 252 [St. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/) · on [Matthew 6:11](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v11) On this verse > After the supply of food, pardon of sin is also asked for, that he who is fed by God may live in God. On the Lord's Prayer, 15, c. 252 [St. John Chrysostom](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-chrysostom/) · on [Matthew 25:35](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/#v35) On this verse > Do you wish to honor the body of Christ? Do not ignore Him when He is naked. Do not pay Him homage in the temple clad in silk only then to neglect Him outside where He suffers cold and nakedness. Homily on Matthew, 50, c. 390 [St. Ambrose](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ambrose/) · on [Matthew 26:26](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/26/#v26) On this verse > The Word of Christ made out of nothing what was not; can it not change the things that are into what they were not? On the Mysteries, 9, c. 390 [St. John the Baptist](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-the-baptist/) · on [Matthew 3:2](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/3/#v2) On this theme > Repent. For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near. Matthew 3:2 (CPDV), c. 30 [St. Peter Damian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-damian/) · on [Matthew 4:2](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/4/#v2) On this theme > Fasting is the guardian of chastity, the mother of purity, the teacher of virtue. Letter to Leo of Sitria, c. 1060 ### 41 more, on the chapter pages - [Matthew 5:8](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v8) St. Peter Damian - [Matthew 5:10](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v10) St. Lawrence · attributed - [Matthew 5:14](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v14) St. Catherine of Siena · attributed - [Matthew 5:16](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v16) St. Charles Borromeo - [Matthew 5:44](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v44) St. Ambrose - [Matthew 5:44](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v44) St. Maria Goretti · attributed - [Matthew 6:1](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v1) St. Peter Chrysologus - [Matthew 6:6](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v6) St. Teresa of Ávila - [Matthew 6:6](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v6) St. Anselm - [Matthew 6:10](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v10) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - [Matthew 6:20](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v20) St. Dominic - [Matthew 6:24](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v24) St. Augustine of Hippo - [Matthew 6:28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v28) St. Thérèse of Lisieux - [Matthew 6:34](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v34) St. Teresa of Ávila - [Matthew 6:34](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/6/#v34) St. Francis de Sales - [Matthew 7:21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/7/#v21) St. Thérèse of Lisieux - [Matthew 9:37](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/9/#v37) St. Francis Xavier - [Matthew 10:37](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/10/#v37) St. Benedict of Nursia - [Matthew 11:28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/#v28) St. Augustine of Hippo - [Matthew 11:29](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/#v29) St. Francis de Sales - [Matthew 16:24](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/16/#v24) St. John of the Cross - [Matthew 16:24](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/16/#v24) St. Rose of Lima - [Matthew 18:3](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/18/#v3) St. Thérèse of Lisieux - [Matthew 18:20](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/18/#v20) St. Ignatius of Antioch - [Matthew 19:21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/19/#v21) St. Francis of Assisi - [Matthew 22:21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v21) St. Thomas More - [Matthew 22:37](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v37) St. Augustine of Hippo - [Matthew 22:37](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v37) St. Bernard of Clairvaux - [Matthew 22:37](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v37) St. Alphonsus Liguori - [Matthew 22:39](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v39) St. Catherine of Siena - [Matthew 22:39](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/22/#v39) St. Vincent de Paul - [Matthew 23:8](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/23/#v8) St. Augustine of Hippo - [Matthew 25:31](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/#v31) St. John of the Cross - [Matthew 25:35](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/#v35) St. Benedict of Nursia - [Matthew 25:36](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/#v36) St. Francis of Assisi - [Matthew 25:40](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/#v40) St. Vincent de Paul - [Matthew 26:39](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/26/#v39) St. Alphonsus Liguori - [Matthew 28:6](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/#v6) St. John Chrysostom - [Matthew 28:19](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/#v19) St. Ignatius of Loyola · attributed - [Matthew 28:19](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/#v19) St. Francis Xavier - [Matthew 28:20](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/#v20) St. Alphonsus Liguori Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, Matthew is read at the principal Mass on 141 days in the US calendar. The next 8 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Sat, Oct 31, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/31/) | Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time | Alleluia | [Matthew 11:29ab](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) | | [Sun, Nov 1, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/01/) | All Saints | Gospel | [Matthew 5:1-12a](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/) | | [Sun, Nov 1, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/01/) | All Saints | Alleluia | [Matthew 11:28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) | | [Mon, Nov 2, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/02/) | The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed | Alleluia | [Matthew 25:34](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/) | | [Tue, Nov 3, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/03/) | Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time | Alleluia | [Matthew 11:28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) | | [Thu, Nov 5, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/05/) | Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time | Alleluia | [Matthew 11:28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) | | [Sun, Nov 8, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/08/) | Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time | Alleluia | [Matthew 24:42a, 44](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/24/) | | [Sun, Nov 8, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/08/) | Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time | Gospel | [Matthew 25:1-13](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/25/) | Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. [Previous book The Second Book of Maccabees](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-maccabees/) [Next book The Gospel of Mark](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/)