Famous quotes containing the words matthew and/or king:
“Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:28.
“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)