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The Gospel according to Matthew stands first among the four Gospels. Written in Greek in the later first century, it opens with the genealogy and birth of Jesus, gathers his teaching into five great discourses — beginning with the Sermon on the Mount — and follows him through the ministry in Galilee to the Passion and Resurrection in Jerusalem. The Latin text is the Vulgate, the revision of the Old Latin Gospels that Jerome made at Rome for Pope Damasus around AD 383, correcting it against Greek manuscripts.
Matthew’s careful use of the Hebrew Scriptures, its stress on Jesus as the fulfilment of prophecy and its interest in the life of the community made it the most quoted Gospel of the early Church. In the Latin West the Vulgate text of Matthew supplied the Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes and much of the liturgy, and it was read, preached and commented on more than any other book of the New Testament.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from the Lasciva Roma collection of additional Latin texts (edition: Jerome's 405 a.d., Latin Vulgate These files were produced following modern scholarship of the available Vulgate mss. The apocryphal books are prefixed with…), licensed CC BY-NC-SA. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.