The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 28, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195111927
First sentence: Matthew was awarded pride of place as the first Gospel of the New Testament, not because it was the first to be written, but probably because it was the most widely used by early Christians interested in knowing about the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.