Making the Bible known
Our Vision
“A TRANSFORMED PHILIPPINES THROUGH GOD’S WORD”
The BIBLE is manual to life for all Filipinos and in every Filipino home
so that lives are transformed resulting in national righteousness,
economic sufficiency, social peace,
public justice, and God-fearing citizenry.
economic sufficiency, social peace,
public justice, and God-fearing citizenry.
Our Mission
“MAKING THE BIBLE KNOWN”
We exist to achieve the widest possible
effective and meaningful distribution
of the Holy Scriptures
effective and meaningful distribution
of the Holy Scriptures
- In languages that people understand
- In media and formats that meet people’s needs, and
- At prices that people can afford providing everyone the opportunity to pray, give, volunteer and engage with the Word of God.
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Ermita, Manila 1000
Philippines
+63 (2) 526-7777
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by Mrs. Dolorita Monera Most scholars believe that the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were probably written between A.D. 60, ten years before the destruction of Jerusalem, and A.D. 100. Nowhere does the first Gospel name its author. The general testimony of the early church is that the apostle Matthew wrote it, and early textual witnesses attribute it to him. The attribution of the gospel to the disciple Matthew may have been due to his having been responsible for some of the traditions found in it, but even this assumption is far from certain. Most scholars agree that MARK was probably the first Gospel written, since Matthew and Luke seem to take many of their details and the order of events directly from MARK. That is why modern scholars hesitate to accept the tradition that the author of the first Gospel was the apostle Matthew. The identity of the author of the first Gospel is unknown. There are several arguments for Matthew's authorship but none of them is conclusive. Hence we cannot be certain who the author of the first Gospel is. However, there are solid reasons in support of the early church's unanimous ascription of this book to the apostle Matthew. A plausible suggestion as for the place of composition of the gospel of Matthew is that it was Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria. That large and important city had a mixed population of Greek-speaking Gentiles and Jews. The usual assumption is that the evangelist wrote it to meet the needs of his own center - a not improbable view. Or the writer may have written his Gospel to strengthen and inform a large number of followers. But for certain the writer of Matthew was writing for people who knew the Jewish Scriptures, which Christians call the Old Testament. The writer often points out how these earlier texts look forward to Jesus as the Messiah sent from God. |