Matthew

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Where the songs go in Matthew

The 55 songs here set 6 of the 6 movements in Matthew to music: “Son of David, Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1–4), “He Went Up into a Mountain” (Matthew 5–7), “Authority Over Sickness, Storm and Death” (Matthew 8–9), “Who Do Men Say That I Am” (Matthew 10–20), “Into the City” (Matthew 21–27) and “Go Ye Therefore” (Matthew 28). Others take the book as a whole.

Son of David, Son of Abraham (Matthew 1–4). A genealogy that stops to name four women with complicated histories, an engaged man told in a dream to take his fiancée anyway, wise men from the east who ask the wrong king for directions, and a family fleeing into Egypt at night.

Who Do Men Say That I Am (Matthew 10–20). The twelve are sent out and told plainly they will be hated.

Go Ye Therefore (Matthew 28). An earthquake, an angel who rolls the stone away and then sits on it, and guards who go rigid with fear.