Matthew

By Chapter/Verse

5-7

One of the utterances in the Sermon on the Mount is preferable to 'Abdu'l-Bahá than all the writings of the philosophers

"The Bible and the Gospels are most honored in the estimation of all Bahais. One of the spiritual utterances of His Holiness Christ in his Sermon on the Mount is preferable to me to all the writings of the philosophers. It is the religious duty of every Bahai to read and comprehend the meanings of the Old and New Testament."

('Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of the West, vol. 14, issue 2, p. 55)

19:30

The Period of Turmoil which Accompanies a New Manifestation

"The passage in the Gospel of Matthew 19:30 is a reference to the period of turmoil that accompanies the appearance of a new Manifestation, at which time the humble and the lowly who accept the new Revelation will be raised and the outwardly high, but inwardly corrupt and low, will be abased and degraded."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, January 14, 1938, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1654)

25:31-33: References to Bahá’u’lláh

"...in St. Matthew, chapter 25, the object of verses 31, 32 and 33 is the Blessed Beauty."

(‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas, translated by Shoghi Rabbani, June 4, 1919: Star of the West, Vol. X, No. 12, p. 232, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1715)