Today in our journey through the 66 books of the Bible we are starting into the 27 books of the New Testament, beginning with the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew’s Gospel appears first in the New Testament, not because it was written first, but rather because it was the most popular Gospel in the Early Church. In fact, the earliest book of the New Testament is not a Gospel at all. The earliest book is Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. At first, all the stories about Jesus circulated orally. It wasn’t until the first eyewitnesses began to die off that the Early Church thought about writing down more detailed accounts of Jesus’ life, ministry, his death, and resurrection. Another thing to keep in mind is that none of the Gospels originally had titles. The titles came later. So, you might reasonably ask, where did the titles come from, these titles that suggest Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were the authors of the four Gospels we have in our Bibles? Eusebius was in many ways