Welcome to Form Live. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor of Scripture here at the August Institute as well.

And what we want to do over the next series of Wednesdays, probably for the next couple months at least, is do a little Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

We've gotten great feedback from all of you on how you like the form dailies and especially many of you really love all the scripture

exposition and teaching that happens. And so we thought it would be good to just spend an

entire episode just focused on one of the Gospels and really kind of really do a Bible study with you.

And so this will be a different kind of Bible study.

So we invite you to grab your Bibles.

We're going to be using the ESV Catholic Edition,

which is the English standard version, which you can get in the Augustine Bible.

And so that's the translation we're going to use if you won't,

but any translation will do.

Please open up your Bibles and just join us in this Bible study.

You have two biblical scholars and friends who are going to talk about the gospel in Matthew,

and we'll try not to get too detailed into the scholarly issues

and behind every verse and every page and all the different academic debates.

But what we want to do is take the fruit of that deeper academic study and research over the last few generations and share those insights in opening up the text of Matthew's Gospel with you.

And that's our goal, is to help elucidate and to clarify the text of Matthew and his gospel because his gospel is exactly that.

It is good news. That's what gospel means. And we're going to get into how Matthew's story of Jesus is good news.

Today, just as much as it was when Matthew sat down and wrote this gospel. So we are excited to dive into the biblical text. But before we do that,

maybe we just start with Matthew himself and a good window into Matthew that I like. And I know

Michael, you and I were talking about this just a little bit ago, is if you go to Rome, there's a wonderful

church, San Luigi. And for the Jubilee year in 1600, there was paintings, a couple paintings commissioned by at that time,

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