We continue our 'Reading Matthew in Lent' series today by reading through Chapter Four of St Matthew's Gospel.

In this chapter, we get to the very heart of the Christian season of Lent. Jesus is led into the wilderness where he is tempted by the devil. He fasts for forty days and forty nights. Jesus then begins His ministry and calls the first disciples. Finally we learn that Jesus travels throughout Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of heaven.

'Reading Matthew in Lent' is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew's Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.

We continue our 'Reading Matthew in Lent' series today by reading through Chapter Three of St Matthew's Gospel.

John the Baptist is busy preparing the way for Jesus: "I baptise you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire."

We then have the account of the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan.

'Reading Matthew in Lent' is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew's Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.

We continue our 'Reading Matthew in Lent' series today by reading through Chapter Two of St Matthew's Gospel.

The second chapter of St Matthew's gospel describes the events after the birth of Jesus. We hear about the visit of the Wise Men who are travelling in search of a newborn king, about the attempt by King Herod to kill the infant Messiah, Joseph and his family's flight into Egypt, and their return to live in Israel, settling in Nazareth.

'Reading Matthew in Lent' is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew's Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.

It's Ash Wednesday and our 'Reading Matthew in Lent' series starts today following the format we used last year when we read St Luke's Gospel from beginning to end through the season of Lent.

Matthew's Gospel starts with the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations from David to the deportation to Babylon, and fourteen generations from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ.

We then hear Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus.

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”

'Reading Matthew in Lent' is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew's Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.