The book of Matthew is the first of the four Gospels and sits in the New Testament; it has 28 chapters in the King James Version.
Matthew is traditionally attributed to Matthew. Matthew opens with a genealogy of Jesus and contains five extended blocks of teaching, the best-known of which is the Sermon on the Mount in chapters 5-7. A well-known passage from this book is the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Read the full book at Matthew.