Doctrine Analysis: Matthew 1–28 (Persian Destination Language)

Purpose

This document is the full-book doctrine matrix for the Matthew curriculum, produced under PRD Phase 1 Step 4. It is strictly consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json (Matthew): every doctrine name, risk tier, and review-routing decision below is identical to that registry. This file adds the chapter-by-chapter coverage trace the registry itself does not provide — confirming that all 28 chapters of Matthew have been reviewed for doctrinal load-bearing content, and explicitly logging chapters where no new risk is introduced rather than omitting them.

The core passage, Matthew 5:1–12 (the Beatitudes), anchors the curriculum theologically but is not the scope boundary; this matrix covers the entire book, first chapter to last.

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Section 1 — Full Doctrine Matrix

#	Doctrine	Risk	Persian Doctrine Name	Key Supporting Passages (Matthew)	Translation Risk Summary	Review Routing
1	The Kingdom of Heaven	Critical	ملکوت آسمان	3:2; 4:17; 5:3–10; 6:33; 13:1–52; 16:19; 18:1–4; 19:23–24; 25:1–46	Must be taught as fully synonymous with baseline’s ملکوت خدا (heaven = reverential circumlocution for God); Iran’s Velayat-e Faqih gives this Matthean idiom sharper live political resonance than the Romans baseline anticipated. Never a territorial-political state or afterlife-only location.	Human theologian
2	Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	Critical	مسیح موعود و پسر داوود	1:1–17; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30–31; 21:9; 22:41–45	پسر داوود is a confessional acclamation, not mere genealogy; carries full Shia Mahdi-displacement risk (Hidden Twelfth Imam expectation subordinating Isa). Christ’s primary, sufficient redemptive identity must be actively asserted, not merely his honored Davidic status.	Human theologian
3	Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	High	تحقق نبوت عهد عتیق	1:22–23; 2:15; 2:17–18; 2:23; 4:14–16; 8:17; 12:17–21; 12:38–40; 13:35; 21:4–5; 21:42–44; 27:9–10	Matthew’s ten formula-quotations are the densest NT concentration of this doctrine; must be taught against Islamic naskh (abrogation, later revelation superseding earlier) — this is fulfillment/completion, not supersession.	Human theologian
4	The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	High	اختیار تعلیم عیسی	5:21–48; 7:28–29; 9:6; 21:23–27; 28:18	اختیار conveys inherent, self-attesting authority, contrasted with Velayat-e Faqih’s derivative clerical mandate and with ijtihad’s “one opinion among many” framework. “I say to you” must not be flattened into either category.	Human theologian
5	Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	High	عدالتی برتر از فریسیان	5:20; 5:48; 6:1–18; 15:1–20; 23:1–39	Engages live Islamic devotional/legal categories (صدقه, روزه, ریا, پاکی, انسان کامل); must be taught as inward, grace-rooted, private/relational, not public merit-accruing performance.	Human theologian
6	The Church and Church Discipline	High	کلیسا و انضباط کلیسایی	16:18–19; 18:15–20	Binding/loosing and the keys risk collision with Imamate/velayat-e faqih infallible-succession authority; must be taught as Spirit-guided recognition of gospel truth Christ already established, with realistic sensitivity to underground house-church security constraints.	Human theologian
7	The Great Commission	Critical	ماموریت بزرگ	28:16–20	Combines universal authority, inclusive “all nations,” and the explicit Trinitarian baptismal formula (singular “name,” three Persons) in direct tension with tawhid. Evangelism carries real legal/social risk for Muslim-background converts under Iranian apostasy norms.	Human theologian
8	Judgment and the End of the Age	Critical	داوری و پایان این دوران	13:36–43; 13:49–50; 24:1–51; 25:1–46	Must reject آخرالزمان and ظهور (the exact Twelver Shia Mahdist terms) as the single highest-priority forbidden-substitution pair. Final-judgment criteria must be taught within Matthew’s grace-then-fruit structure, not an independent mizan deeds-weighing framework. جهنم requires mandatory review at every occurrence.	Human theologian
9	Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	High	شاگردی و بهای پیروی از عیسی	4:18–22; 5:10–12; 10:16–39; 16:24–26; 19:16–30	شاگرد risks being read through the Sufi pir-o-morid hierarchical human-master model; must be taught as allegiance to a living, divine, resurrected Lord. Cross-bearing presumes the historical crucifixion. Speaks with direct pastoral force to real convert cost.	Human theologian
10	Incarnation (Immanuel)	Critical	تجسد (عمانوئیل)	1:18–23; 28:20	Immanuel bookends the Gospel; the virgin conception is a genuine Quranic bridge (3:47, 19:20) but Quranic theology stops short of Incarnation. Must be taught against both Quranic denial of divine sonship and the Zoroastrian emanationist softening baseline already flags.	Human theologian
11	Sonship of Christ	Critical	پسر خدا بودن مسیح	3:17; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63; 27:40; 27:43; 27:54	Three direct divine attestations plus Peter’s confession and the trial blasphemy charge hinge on پسر خدا, which per baseline must never be softened. Believers’ derivative sonship must remain lexically distinct (فرزندان خدا, never پسران خدا).	Human theologian
12	Deity of Christ	Critical	الوهیت مسیح	2:11; 9:2–6; 12:8; 14:33; 22:41–45; 28:9; 28:17	Worship offered to Jesus, forgiving sins, and lordship over the Sabbath are direct divine-prerogative claims, the paradigm case of shirk from a tawhid standpoint. Reject سجده کردن (reserved for Allah alone) at every occurrence.	Human theologian
13	Son of Man Authority	Critical	اختیار پسر انسان	8:20; 9:6; 12:8; 16:27–28; 24:30; 25:31; 26:64	Can sound like a claim to mere humanity when it actually draws on Daniel 7’s exalted, enthroned, universally-ruling figure. Must be taught with its full authority background so it stands alongside, not beneath, پسر خدا and خداوند.	Human theologian
14	Repentance	Critical	توبه	3:1–12; 4:17; 11:20–21; 12:41	توبه is the exact Islamic term for a human-initiated act of turning that independently secures forgiveness; must be taught as Spirit-enabled reorientation toward the in-breaking kingdom through Christ, not a self-generated act apart from his atonement.	Human theologian
15	Baptism	High	تعمید	3:1–17; 28:19	Settled native Persian Christian term with no live Islamic ritual equivalent (though ghusl/wudu is a partial structural analogue); teach as public identification with Christ and entry into the church, not ritual purification.	Human theologian
16	Worship of Christ	High	پرستش مسیح	2:11; 14:33; 28:9; 28:17	Reject سجده کردن, the exact technical term for Islamic prostration reserved exclusively for Allah; every occurrence must be flagged to confirm Christ’s deity is affirmed, not merely his honored status.	Human theologian
17	Sermon on the Mount Ethical Cluster (Retaliation, Divorce, Oaths, Almsgiving, Fasting)	High	اخلاق موعظه بالای کوه	5:31–42; 6:1–18; 19:3–9	Each item collides with a live Iranian legal/devotional category: قصاص (still in Iran’s penal code), طلاق (male-unilateral classical fiqh), قسم, صدقه, روزه. Must be taught as confronting present practice, not an ancient backdrop only.	Human theologian
18	The Love Command (Agape)	High	فرمان محبت	5:43–48; 22:37–40	Reject عشق (Sufi mystical, often erotically-inflected devotional love) for agape; agape is willed, commanded, covenantal, neighbor-inclusive — categorically distinct even though the Sufi register can supply bridging warmth per baseline tone guidance.	Human theologian
19	Purity and Defilement (Heart vs. Ritual)	High	طهارت و نجاست (دل در برابر آیین)	5:8; 15:1–20; 23:25–26	Directly engages Islamic ritual purity law (halal/haram, najis/tahir); Jesus relocates defilement from external substance/ritual entirely to internal moral condition — must engage, not evade, the familiar purity framework.	Human theologian
20	Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit	Critical	کفر به روح‌القدس	12:22–32	کفر imports the entire Islamic apostasy/kafir legal-social framework onto Jesus’ narrower category of persistent, willful rejection of the Spirit’s testimony. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence; consider کفرگویی به روح‌القدس to reduce identity-category contamination.	Human theologian
21	Atonement and Ransom	Critical	کفاره و فدیه	20:28; 26:26–28	فدیه is a live Islamic legal/ritual bridge (fidya) but risks reducing the atonement to a financial/legal transaction. Must be tied to baseline’s Salvation doctrine distinguishing Christ’s unique atonement from the Karbala/Hussein martyrdom-intercession framework.	Human theologian
22	Crucifixion of Christ	Critical	مصلوب شدن مسیح	10:38; 16:24; 20:19; 26:1–27:66	Matthew’s extensive Passion narrative directly and repeatedly confronts Quran 4:157’s crucifixion-denial (shubbiha lahum), shared across Sunni and Shia Islam. Highest-density concentration of this collision in the curriculum; requires deliberate historical grounding, not a glancing mention.	Human theologian
23	Resurrection of Christ	Critical	قیامت مسیح	12:38–40; 16:21; 17:22–23; 20:19; 28:1–10	Predicted repeatedly, narrated as historical fact with named witnesses; directly confronts Quran 4:157 (if no death, no resurrection) and any Mahdi-centered reframing of end-time hope around a still-concealed figure.	Human theologian
24	The Second Coming	Critical	بازگشت دوباره مسیح	24:1–51; 25:1–46; 26:64	Explicitly reject ظهور, THE precise Twelver Shia term for the Hidden Twelfth Imam’s reappearance — the single highest-priority forbidden substitution in this curriculum. Christ’s own distinct, sufficient, already-promised return must not be grafted onto Mahdist expectation.	Human theologian
25	Eternal Judgment and Hell	Critical	داوری ابدی و جهنم	5:22; 5:29–30; 10:28; 13:36–43; 13:49–50; 18:8–9; 23:15; 23:33; 25:31–46	جهنم is the identical shared Quranic term; surface Paradise/Hell vocabulary is genuinely compatible, but the final-judgment criterion (union with and fruit of faith in Christ) must be taught at every occurrence, not an independent deeds-weighing mizan.	Human theologian
26	Trinitarian Baptismal Formula	Critical	فرمول تعمید تثلیثی	28:19	Most concentrated, explicit Trinitarian formula in Matthew, three Persons under one singular “name” — the most direct possible tension with tawhid’s absolute divine unity. Teach as consistent with, not contradictory to, God’s own triune nature.	Human theologian
27	Mysteries of the Kingdom	High	رازهای ملکوت	13:1–52	Risks absorption into Twelver Shia esoteric ilm-e batin and Hidden Imam concealment doctrine; must be taught as gospel truth now openly revealed and offered to all who receive it by faith, not perpetually hidden gnosis for an initiated elite.	Human theologian
28	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	High	اتحاد یهودیان و غیریهودیان	8:5–13; 15:21–28; 28:19	Gentile faith explicitly commended above Israel’s own requires careful pastoral framing given Iran’s officially propagandized anti-Israel political stance; must not be flattened into commentary on present state politics.	Human theologian
29	Persecution for Righteousness and for Christ’s Sake	High	آزار به‌خاطر عدالت و مسیح	5:10–12; 10:16–39	Speaks with direct, unsoftened pastoral force to real Iranian/Afghan house-church experience under active legal/social persecution; must never be abstracted into vague hardship. “Sword not peace” is relational/familial rupture-language, not military endorsement.	Human theologian
30	The Lord’s Supper (Body and Blood)	High	شام خداوند (بدن و خون)	26:26–29	Blood is najis and haram to consume in Islamic law; “drinking my blood” risks visceral revulsion or a charge of a forbidden act if read literally rather than sacramentally/symbolically. Must be explicitly tied to forgiveness of sins and the atonement/ransom logic.	Human theologian
31	Binding and Loosing / Keys of the Kingdom	High	بستن و گشودن / کلیدهای ملکوت	16:19; 18:18	Risks collision with the Imamate/velayat-e faqih model of ongoing, infallible, appointed clerical authority; must be taught as the church’s Spirit-guided recognition of gospel truth already established by Christ, never an independent infallible authority.	Human theologian
32	Mercy and Compassion	Medium	رحمت و ترحم	5:7; 9:13,36; 12:7; 14:14; 15:32; 18:21–35; 20:34; 23:23	رحمت shares its root with Al-Rahman/Al-Rahim, a genuine bridge, but risks remaining an abstract recited divine attribute rather than mercy concretely practiced by disciples; teaching should move from formula to embodied ethic.	Native speaker review
33	Sabbath and the Lordship of Christ	Medium	سبت و خداوندی مسیح	12:1–14	سبت has no direct Islamic ritual equivalent, so risk is primarily unfamiliarity; theologically, “lord of the Sabbath” is a striking divine-authority claim over a God-given institution and should be taught with that weight despite the Medium lexical risk.	Native speaker review
34	Parables as a Teaching Method	Medium	مثل‌ها به عنوان روش تعلیم	13:1–52; 18:23–35; 20:1–16; 21:28–22:14; 25:1–30	مثل is a genuine Quranic-cognate bridge (amthal) but risks reduction to generic proverbial wisdom-teaching rather than a specific revelatory vehicle that both discloses and conceals kingdom-truth.	Native speaker review
35	Temptation and Spiritual Warfare	Medium	وسوسه و جنگ روحانی	4:1–11; 16:23	وسوسه is a genuine bridge with the Quran’s waswas “whispering” category; شیطان/ابلیس shares the identical Quranic adversary figure but with a different fall narrative (Genesis 3 vs. Quran 7:11–18) that must not be imported as backstory.	Native speaker review

Risk summary (must match doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical: 16 · High: 15 · Medium: 4 · Low: 0 · Total requiring theologian review: 31 · Total requiring native speaker review: 4 · Total automated-only: 0

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Section 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage (Matthew 1–28)

Every chapter of Matthew is logged below. Chapters are cited against the doctrine numbers in Section 1. Where a chapter reinforces an already-logged doctrine without introducing new translation risk, this is noted explicitly rather than omitted.

Matthew 1 — Genealogy and Birth

• Active doctrines: #2 Messiah/Son of David (1:1–17, royal genealogy establishing Davidic line); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (1:22–23, Isaiah 7:14 formula quotation); #10 Incarnation/Immanuel (1:18–23, virgin conception, “God with us”).
• Note: Establishes baseline proper names (عیسی, داوود, ابراهیم) and the پسر داوود / عمانوئیل titles that recur throughout. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 2 — The Magi, Flight to Egypt, Return to Nazareth

• Active doctrines: #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (2:15, 2:17–18, 2:23 — three further formula quotations); #12 Deity of Christ / #16 Worship of Christ (2:11, magi’s پرستش کردن of the child, not سجده کردن).
• Note: First occurrence of the worship-of-Christ risk; introduces کاتبان (scribes, glossary #12) as background vocabulary, low independent doctrinal weight here. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 3 — John the Baptist, Jesus’ Baptism

• Active doctrines: #1 Kingdom of Heaven (3:2, John’s proclamation); #14 Repentance (3:1–12, توبه); #15 Baptism (3:1–17); #11 Sonship of Christ (3:17, the Father’s voice: “This is my beloved Son”).
• Note: First full Trinitarian tableau in narrative form (Father’s voice, Spirit descending, Son baptized) — foreshadows #26 but does not yet carry the explicit baptismal-formula risk of 28:19. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 4 — Temptation, Call of the First Disciples

• Active doctrines: #1 Kingdom of Heaven (4:17, “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”); #14 Repentance (4:17); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (4:14–16); #35 Temptation and Spiritual Warfare (4:1–11); #9 Discipleship (4:18–22, the calling of the first disciples).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 5 — The Sermon on the Mount, Part I (Beatitudes, Law and Righteousness)

• Core passage chapter. Active doctrines: #1 Kingdom of Heaven (5:3–10, the Beatitudes); #5 Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees (5:20, 5:48); #17 Sermon Ethical Cluster (5:31–42, retaliation, divorce, oaths); #18 Love Command (5:43–48); #19 Purity and Defilement (5:8, “pure in heart”); #4 Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (5:21–48, “you have heard… but I say”); #9 Discipleship / #29 Persecution for Righteousness (5:10–12); #32 Mercy and Compassion (5:7).
• Note: The single most doctrinally dense chapter in the curriculum given the core-passage anchor; reviewed in full with priority weighting.

Matthew 6 — The Sermon on the Mount, Part II (Piety Practices, Prayer, Anxiety)

• Active doctrines: #5 Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees / #17 Sermon Ethical Cluster (6:1–18, almsgiving, prayer, fasting); #1 Kingdom of Heaven (6:33, “seek first the kingdom”).
• Note: Reinforces #5/#17 with no new risk tier introduced. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 7 — The Sermon on the Mount, Part III (Judging, Narrow Gate, Conclusion)

• Active doctrines: #4 Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (7:28–29, “the crowds were astonished… he taught as one having authority”).
• Note: Concludes the Sermon; no new doctrine tier beyond #4’s reinforcement. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 8 — Healing Miracles, Following Jesus

• Active doctrines: #28 Unity of Jews and Gentiles (8:5–13, the centurion’s faith); #13 Son of Man Authority (8:20); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (8:17); #4 Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (healing/authority over nature).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 9 — Forgiveness of Sins, Calling of Matthew, More Healings

• Active doctrines: #12 Deity of Christ / #13 Son of Man Authority (9:2–6, authority to forgive sins as a direct divine-prerogative claim); #32 Mercy and Compassion (9:13, 9:36).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 10 — The Mission of the Twelve

• Active doctrines: #9 Discipleship and the Cost of Following / #29 Persecution for Righteousness (10:16–39); #22 Crucifixion of Christ (10:38, cross-bearing language presumes historical crucifixion); #13 Son of Man Authority (implicit in the sending discourse).
• Note: First explicit “take up his cross” language, foreshadowing #22’s full development in chs. 26–27. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 11 — John the Baptist’s Question, Woes, the Gentle Invitation

• Active doctrines: #2 Messianic Promise (11:2–6, John’s question about “the one who is to come”); #14 Repentance (11:20–21); #1 Kingdom of Heaven (11:11–12, the kingdom’s advance); #9 Discipleship (11:28–30, “take my yoke”).
• Note: “Rest” (ἀνάπαυσις) and “yoke” (ζυγός) are glossary-level terms (Section 2, #32–33) requiring the same caution baseline applies to bare آرامش; no independent doctrine-registry entry, folded under #1/#9. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 12 — Sabbath Controversies, the Unforgivable Sin, the Sign of Jonah

• Active doctrines: #33 Sabbath and the Lordship of Christ (12:1–14); #20 Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit (12:22–32); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (12:17–21); #23 Resurrection of Christ (12:38–40, sign of Jonah); #14 Repentance (12:41); #13 Son of Man Authority (12:8, “lord of the Sabbath”).
• Note: One of the highest-density chapters for Critical-tier risk (#20, #23). Reviewed in full.

Matthew 13 — The Parables of the Kingdom

• Active doctrines: #1 Kingdom of Heaven (13:1–52, the parable discourse); #27 Mysteries of the Kingdom (13:11); #34 Parables as a Teaching Method; #8 Judgment and the End of the Age (13:36–43, 13:49–50, wheat/tares and net parables); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (13:35).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 14 — Feeding of the Five Thousand, Walking on Water

• Active doctrines: #16 Worship of Christ (14:33); #32 Mercy and Compassion (14:14).
• Note: Second major worship-of-Christ occurrence after 2:11; no new doctrine tier. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 15 — Purity Traditions, the Canaanite Woman, Feeding the Four Thousand

• Active doctrines: #19 Purity and Defilement (15:1–20); #28 Unity of Jews and Gentiles (15:21–28); #32 Mercy and Compassion (15:32).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 16 — Peter’s Confession, the Keys of the Kingdom, the First Passion Prediction

• Active doctrines: #2 Messianic Promise / #11 Sonship of Christ (16:16, Peter’s confession — “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”); #6 Church and Church Discipline / #31 Binding and Loosing (16:18–19); #1 Kingdom of Heaven (16:19); #23 Resurrection of Christ (16:21, first passion prediction); #9 Discipleship / #22 Crucifixion (16:24–26).
• Note: Pivotal chapter combining five Critical/High doctrines in close proximity; reviewed in full with priority weighting.

Matthew 17 — The Transfiguration, Second Passion Prediction

• Active doctrines: #11 Sonship of Christ (17:5, the Father’s voice repeated); #23 Resurrection of Christ (17:22–23).
• Note: Second direct divine attestation of Sonship (after 3:17, before 26:63). Reviewed in full.

Matthew 18 — Church Discipline, Forgiveness

• Active doctrines: #6 Church and Church Discipline / #31 Binding and Loosing (18:15–20; 18:18); #1 Kingdom of Heaven (18:1–4); #32 Mercy and Compassion (18:21–35); #25 Eternal Judgment and Hell (18:8–9).
• Note: Second and fuller binding/loosing passage after 16:19. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 19 — Divorce, Children, the Rich Young Man

• Active doctrines: #17 Sermon Ethical Cluster / divorce (19:3–9); #1 Kingdom of Heaven (19:23–24); #9 Discipleship and the Cost of Following (19:16–30).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 20 — The Workers in the Vineyard, the Third Passion Prediction, Blind Bartimaeus (Son of David cry)

• Active doctrines: #2 Messianic Promise/Son of David (20:30–31); #21 Atonement and Ransom (20:28, “give his life as a ransom for many”); #22 Crucifixion / #23 Resurrection (20:19, third passion prediction).
• Note: First explicit فدیه/ransom language; reviewed in full.

Matthew 21 — Triumphal Entry, Cleansing the Temple, the Parable of the Vineyard

• Active doctrines: #2 Messianic Promise/Son of David (21:9, triumphal-entry acclamation); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (21:4–5, 21:42–44, cornerstone citation); #4 Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (21:23–27).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 22 — The Parable of the Wedding Feast, Paying Taxes, the Greatest Commandment, David’s Lord

• Active doctrines: #2 Messianic Promise/Son of David (22:41–45, “how can David’s son also be David’s Lord?” — directly intersects #12 Deity of Christ); #18 Love Command (22:37–40).
• Note: Reviewed in full.

Matthew 23 — Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees

• Active doctrines: #5 Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees (23:1–39); #19 Purity and Defilement (23:25–26); #25 Eternal Judgment and Hell (23:15, 23:33).
• Note: Introduces ریاکار (hypocrite) as a load-bearing glossary term; folded under #5. Reviewed in full.

Matthew 24 — The Olivet Discourse, Part I (Signs, the Coming of the Son of Man)

• Active doctrines: #8 Judgment and the End of the Age (24:1–51); #24 The Second Coming (24, “parousia”); #13 Son of Man Authority (24:30).
• Note: The forbidden-substitution pair (آخرالزمان / ظهور) is at its highest-stakes density in this chapter. Reviewed in full with priority weighting.

Matthew 25 — The Olivet Discourse, Part II (Parables of Readiness, the Sheep and the Goats)

• Active doctrines: #8 Judgment and the End of the Age (25:1–46); #25 Eternal Judgment and Hell (25:31–46); #24 The Second Coming; #13 Son of Man Authority (25:31).
• Note: Reviewed in full with priority weighting alongside ch. 24.

Matthew 26 — The Last Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal and Arrest

• Active doctrines: #30 The Lord’s Supper (26:26–29); #21 Atonement and Ransom (26:26–28); #11 Sonship of Christ (26:63, the trial’s blasphemy charge); #13 Son of Man Authority (26:64); #22 Crucifixion of Christ (opening of the extended Passion narrative, 26:1–27:66); #9 Discipleship (Peter’s denial, Gethsemane).
• Note: Reviewed in full with priority weighting.

Matthew 27 — Trial, Crucifixion, Burial

• Active doctrines: #22 Crucifixion of Christ (the chapter’s dominant doctrine); #11 Sonship of Christ / #12 Deity of Christ (27:40, 27:43, 27:54 — mockery and the centurion’s confession); #3 Fulfillment of OT Prophecy (27:9–10).
• Note: The single highest-density chapter for the crucifixion/Quran 4:157 collision; reviewed in full with priority weighting.

Matthew 28 — Resurrection, the Great Commission

• Active doctrines: #23 Resurrection of Christ (28:1–10); #7 The Great Commission (28:16–20); #26 Trinitarian Baptismal Formula (28:19); #16 Worship of Christ (28:9, 28:17); #4 Authority of Jesus’ Teaching (28:18, “all authority”); #10 Incarnation/Immanuel (28:20, inclusio with 1:23); #28 Unity of Jews and Gentiles (28:19, “all nations”).
• Note: Closing chapter concentrates the curriculum’s highest-priority Critical doctrines (#7, #23, #26) in twenty verses. Reviewed in full with priority weighting.

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Section 3 — Coverage Confirmation

All 28 chapters of Matthew have been reviewed against the 35 doctrines of doctrine_risk_registry.json. No chapter was found to contribute zero doctrinal signal; every chapter is logged above with either newly-introduced doctrine activity or an explicit note that it reinforces an already-logged doctrine without raising its risk tier. This matrix, together with doctrine_risk_registry.json, 08_core_glossary.md, and the Romans baseline artifacts, forms the complete Phase 1 doctrinal foundation for Phase 2 segment translation of the Matthew curriculum.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

The Kingdom of Heaven

Persian name: ملکوت آسمان
Key terms: kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, reign of heaven
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Matthew’s dominant idiom (~32x) must be taught as fully synonymous with baseline’s ملکوت خدا, yet Iran’s Velayat-e Faqih system - an explicitly religious-political state structure claiming divinely-derived sovereignty - makes this Matthean phrase carry an even sharper live political resonance than baseline anticipated. Must never be read as a territorial-political state or a future disembodied afterlife location only.

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Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David

Persian name: مسیح موعود و پسر داوود
Key terms: Christ, Messiah, Son of David, seed of David
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: پسر داوود functions as a confessional messianic acclamation, not mere genealogy, and carries baseline’s full documented Shia Mahdi-displacement risk (popular expectation centered on the Hidden Twelfth Imam, with Isa in a secondary role). Christ’s own primary, sufficient redemptive identity must be actively asserted at every occurrence, not merely his honored Davidic status.

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The Great Commission

Persian name: ماموریت بزرگ
Key terms: all authority, make disciples, all nations, baptizing, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: combines Jesus’ universal authority claim, the inclusive ‘all nations’ mandate, and the explicit Trinitarian baptismal formula in one passage - the single ‘name’ (singular) shared by three Persons stands in direct tension with tawhid’s absolute divine unity. Evangelism carries genuine legal and social risk for Muslim-background converts under Iranian apostasy norms and must be taught with full awareness of the safety stakes for house-church believers.

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Judgment and the End of the Age

Persian name: داوری و پایان این دوران
Key terms: end of the age, coming of the Son of Man, eternal life, eternal punishment, hell, tribulation
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: explicitly reject آخرالزمان (Islamic/Shia apocalyptic term tied to the chaos preceding the Hidden Imam’s manifestation) and ظهور (THE precise Twelver Shia term for the Hidden Twelfth Imam’s reappearance) for ‘end of the age’ and ‘coming/parousia’ respectively - the single highest-priority forbidden-substitution pair in this curriculum. Final judgment criteria (25:31-46) must be taught within Matthew’s grace-then-fruit structure, not as confirming an independent mizan deeds-weighing framework; جهنم (Hell) is retained per Bible-tradition precedent but requires mandatory theologian review at every occurrence given its identical overlap with the Quranic term.

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Incarnation (Immanuel)

Persian name: تجسد (عمانوئیل)
Key terms: Immanuel, God with us, virgin, conceived by the Holy Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Emmanuel (‘God with us’) bookends the Gospel and is among the most direct Incarnation-affirming statements in Matthew; the miraculous virgin conception is shared Quranic content (3:47, 19:20) offering a genuine bridge, but Quranic theology stops short of Incarnation. Must be taught against both the Quran’s denial of divine sonship and the Zoroastrian emanationist softening baseline already flags for تجسد.

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Sonship of Christ

Persian name: پسر خدا بودن مسیح
Key terms: Son of God, beloved Son, this is my Son
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: three direct divine attestations (baptism, transfiguration, implicitly the resurrection) plus Peter’s confession and the trial charge of blasphemy all hinge on پسر خدا, which per baseline must never be softened (rejecting the Hezare No ‘برگزیده خدا’ precedent). Believers’ own derivative sonship must remain lexically distinct (فرزندان خدا, not پسران خدا).

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Deity of Christ

Persian name: الوهیت مسیح
Key terms: worship of Jesus, authority to forgive sins, lord of the Sabbath, David’s Lord
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: worship (προσκυνέω) offered to Jesus risks either being read as sacrilege (worship due only to Allah given to a human) or requires explicit deity-affirming teaching if accepted; reject سجده کردن, the exact Islamic prostration term reserved for Allah. Every occurrence of forgiving sins, claiming lordship over the Sabbath, or receiving worship must be flagged as a direct divine-prerogative claim, the paradigm case of shirk from a tawhid standpoint.

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Son of Man Authority

Persian name: اختیار پسر انسان
Key terms: Son of Man, authority on earth to forgive sins, coming on the clouds, throne of his glory
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: ‘Son of Man’ can sound like a claim to mere humanity, potentially misheard as a lower Christological claim than پسر خدا, when it draws on Daniel 7’s exalted, enthroned, universally-ruling figure. Must be taught with its full Danielic authority background so it functions alongside, not beneath, پسر خدا and خداوند.

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Repentance

Persian name: توبه
Key terms: repent, repentance, kingdom of heaven is at hand
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: توبه is the exact, load-bearing Islamic term for a human-initiated act of turning back to Allah that, properly performed, is understood to independently erase the sin’s record. Must be actively taught as a Spirit-enabled reorientation flowing toward the kingdom already breaking in through Christ, not a self-generated act securing forgiveness apart from Christ’s atoning work.

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Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

Persian name: کفر به روح‌القدس
Key terms: blasphemy against the Spirit, unforgivable sin
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: کفر is the exact foundational Islamic category for disbelief/blasphemy, carrying severe theological, social, and apostasy-linked legal consequences (kafir status); using it here risks importing that entire framework onto Jesus’ narrower category of persistent, willful rejection of the Spirit’s testimony. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.

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Atonement and Ransom

Persian name: کفاره و فدیه
Key terms: ransom for many, his blood poured out for forgiveness of sins, give his life
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: فدیه (ransom) is a live Islamic legal/ritual category (fidya) offering a genuine bridge but risking reduction of the atonement to a mere financial/legal transaction. Must be tied explicitly to baseline’s Critical Salvation doctrine distinguishing Christ’s unique, sufficient atoning death from the Karbala/Hussein martyrdom-intercession framework of popular Shia piety - a life given for others must not be assimilated to that pattern.

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Crucifixion of Christ

Persian name: مصلوب شدن مسیح
Key terms: crucify, crucified, cross, Golgotha
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Matthew’s extensive Passion narrative directly and repeatedly confronts Quran 4:157’s crucifixion-denial (shubbiha lahum), shared identically across Sunni and Shia Islam. This is the single highest-density concentration of this doctrinal collision in the curriculum and requires deliberate, historically-grounded teaching (eyewitness detail, Roman execution procedure, the centurion’s confession), not a glancing mention.

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Resurrection of Christ

Persian name: قیامت مسیح
Key terms: raised, he is not here, sign of Jonah, risen from the dead
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: predicted repeatedly and narrated as historical fact witnessed by named women and the Twelve; directly confronts Quran 4:157’s crucifixion-denial (if there was no death, resurrection is moot) and any Shia Mahdi-centered reframing of end-time hope around a still-concealed messianic figure.

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The Second Coming

Persian name: بازگشت دوباره مسیح
Key terms: coming of the Son of Man, parousia, no one knows the day or hour
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: explicitly reject ظهور, THE precise Twelver Shia technical term for the Hidden Twelfth Imam’s reappearance after concealment - using it for Christ’s return would graft Matthew’s teaching directly onto the existing Mahdist expectation framework rather than presenting Christ’s own distinct, sufficient, already-promised return. The single highest-priority forbidden substitution added by this curriculum.

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Eternal Judgment and Hell

Persian name: داوری ابدی و جهنم
Key terms: eternal life, eternal punishment, hell, Gehenna, outer darkness
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: جهنم is the identical shared Quranic term for Hell; surface Paradise/Hell vocabulary is genuinely compatible with Islamic eschatology, but the final-judgment criterion (union with and fruit of faith in Christ, not an independent deeds-weighing mizan) must be actively taught at every occurrence.

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Trinitarian Baptismal Formula

Persian name: فرمول تعمید تثلیثی
Key terms: in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: the most concentrated, explicit Trinitarian formula in Matthew, naming three Persons under one singular ‘name’ - standing in the most direct possible tension with tawhid’s absolute divine unity shared across Sunni and Shia Islam. Mandatory theologian review; teach as consistent with, not contradictory to, God’s own triune nature.

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High Risk Doctrines

Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy

Persian name: تحقق نبوت عهد عتیق
Key terms: fulfilled, it was written, prophecy, sign of Jonah, cornerstone
Review routing: Human theologian

Matthew’s ten explicit formula-quotations form the single densest NT concentration of this doctrine and must be taught consistently against the Islamic doctrine of naskh (abrogation), in which later revelation supersedes rather than fulfills/completes earlier revelation.

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The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching

Persian name: اختیار تعلیم عیسی
Key terms: authority, taught as one having authority, I say to you, by what authority
Review routing: Human theologian

اختیار conveys inherent, self-attesting right to teach/forgive/judge, contrasted with derivative clerical authority; Iran’s Velayat-e Faqih grounds the Supreme Leader’s authority in a claimed derivative religious mandate, and Islamic legal method’s ijtihad treats authoritative teaching as one juristic opinion among many - Jesus’ ‘I say to you’ must not be flattened into either category.

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Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees

Persian name: عدالتی برتر از فریسیان
Key terms: righteousness, hypocrite, almsgiving, fasting, pure in heart, perfect
Review routing: Human theologian

This doctrine directly engages a cluster of live Islamic devotional/legal categories (صدقه public charity, روزه Ramadan fasting, ریا hypocrisy, پاکی ritual purity, انسان کامل mystical perfection); each must be taught as inward, grace-rooted, and private/relational rather than public, merit-accruing religious performance.

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The Church and Church Discipline

Persian name: کلیسا و انضباط کلیسایی
Key terms: church, bind and loose, keys of the kingdom, tell it to the church
Review routing: Human theologian

Binding/loosing and the keys of the kingdom risk collision with the Shia Imamate/velayat-e faqih model of ongoing, infallible clerical authority vested in an appointed succession; must be taught as the Spirit-guided community recognizing gospel truth already established by Christ, never as an independent infallible clerical office. Discipline procedures must also be taught with realistic sensitivity to the security constraints of small, underground Persian house-churches.

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Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus

Persian name: شاگردی و بهای پیروی از عیسی
Key terms: follow me, take up his cross, deny himself, lose his life, persecuted for righteousness, for my sake
Review routing: Human theologian

شاگرد risks being read through the Sufi pir-o-morid hierarchical human-master discipleship model; must be taught as allegiance to a living, divine, resurrected Lord. Cross-bearing language presumes the historical reality of crucifixion (see crucifixion doctrine below) to carry its metaphorical weight. This doctrine speaks with direct, unsoftened pastoral force to the real social, familial, and legal cost borne by Iranian and Afghan converts from Islam.

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Baptism

Persian name: تعمید
Key terms: baptize, baptism, baptizing them in the name
Review routing: Human theologian

تعمید is the settled native Persian Christian term (no live Islamic ritual equivalent, though ghusl/wudu ritual washing is a partial structural analogue); must be taught as public identification with Christ and entry into the church community, not ritual purification removing ritual impurity.

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Worship of Christ

Persian name: پرستش مسیح
Key terms: worshiped him, fell down and worshiped, proskyneo
Review routing: Human theologian

Reject سجده کردن, the exact technical term for Islamic ritual prostration reserved exclusively for Allah; every occurrence of worship offered to Jesus must be flagged for theologian review to ensure Christ’s deity is being affirmed, not merely his honored status.

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Sermon on the Mount Ethical Cluster (Retaliation, Divorce, Oaths, Almsgiving, Fasting)

Persian name: اخلاق موعظه بالای کوه
Key terms: eye for eye, divorce, oath, almsgiving, fasting
Review routing: Human theologian

Each item in this cluster collides with a specific, currently-operative Iranian Islamic legal or devotional category: قصاص (retributive justice, still in Iran’s penal code), طلاق (unilateral male-prerogative divorce in classical fiqh), قسم (routine oath-swearing), صدقه (public merit-accruing charity), and روزه (obligatory, communal Ramadan fasting). Jesus’ teaching must be taught as confronting present, live practice, not merely an ancient cultural backdrop.

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The Love Command (Agape)

Persian name: فرمان محبت
Key terms: love your enemies, love the Lord your God, love your neighbor
Review routing: Human theologian

Reject عشق (eshq), the central term of Persian Sufi mystical devotional poetry - often erotically-inflected and self-dissolving - as the rendering for agape; agape is willed, commanded, covenantal, and neighbor-inclusive, categorically distinct from eshq’s mystical devotional register even though that register can supply useful bridging warmth per baseline’s tone guidance.

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Purity and Defilement (Heart vs. Ritual)

Persian name: طهارت و نجاست (دل در برابر آیین)
Key terms: pure in heart, clean, unclean, defiles a person
Review routing: Human theologian

Directly engages Islamic ritual purity law (halal/haram, najis/tahir) governing daily Persian Muslim life; Jesus relocates defilement entirely from external substance/ritual to internal moral condition, requiring direct engagement with, not evasion of, the familiar purity framework.

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Mysteries of the Kingdom

Persian name: رازهای ملکوت
Key terms: mysteries of the kingdom, parables, ears to hear
Review routing: Human theologian

Risks absorption into Twelver Shia esoteric ilm-e batin (hidden knowledge transmitted through the Imams) and the Hidden Imam’s own doctrinal concealment; must be taught as gospel truth now openly revealed and offered to all who receive it by faith, not perpetually hidden gnosis reserved for an initiated elite.

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Unity of Jews and Gentiles

Persian name: اتحاد یهودیان و غیریهودیان
Key terms: Gentile faith, not even in Israel, great is your faith, all nations
Review routing: Human theologian

The centurion’s and Canaanite woman’s Gentile faith, explicitly commended above Israel’s own, requires careful pastoral framing given Iran’s officially propagandized anti-Israel political stance, so the redemptive-historical argument is not flattened into or read as commentary on present state politics.

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Persecution for Righteousness and for Christ’s Sake

Persian name: آزار به‌خاطر عدالت و مسیح
Key terms: persecuted for righteousness, revile you, for my sake, sword not peace
Review routing: Human theologian

This doctrine speaks with direct, unsoftened pastoral force to the real experience of Iranian and Afghan house-church believers under active legal and social persecution; must never be generalized or abstracted into vague hardship, and ‘not peace but a sword’ must be framed as relational/familial rupture-language, not military endorsement.

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The Lord’s Supper (Body and Blood)

Persian name: شام خداوند (بدن و خون)
Key terms: this is my body, this is my blood of the covenant, forgiveness of sins
Review routing: Human theologian

Blood is najis and haram to consume in Islamic law; ‘drinking my blood’ language risks visceral revulsion or a charge of promoting a forbidden act if read literally rather than sacramentally/symbolically, and must be explicitly connected to forgiveness of sins and the atonement/ransom logic.

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Binding and Loosing / Keys of the Kingdom

Persian name: بستن و گشودن / کلیدهای ملکوت
Key terms: bind on earth, loose on earth, keys of the kingdom
Review routing: Human theologian

Risks collision with the Shia Imamate/velayat-e faqih model of ongoing, infallible, appointed clerical authority; must be taught as the church’s Spirit-guided recognition of gospel truth Christ has already established, never as an independent infallible authority parallel to the Imamate.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Mercy and Compassion

Persian name: رحمت و ترحم
Key terms: merciful, mercy not sacrifice, compassion on the crowds
Review routing: Native speaker review

رحمت shares its root with the Divine Names Al-Rahman/Al-Rahim, a genuine bridge, but risks remaining an abstract, recited divine attribute rather than a mercy concretely practiced by disciples toward specific people; teaching should move from formula to embodied ethic.

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Sabbath and the Lordship of Christ

Persian name: سبت و خداوندی مسیح
Key terms: Sabbath, lord of the Sabbath
Review routing: Native speaker review

سبت has no direct Islamic ritual equivalent, so risk is primarily unfamiliarity; theologically, Jesus’ claim to be ‘lord of the Sabbath’ is a striking divine-authority claim over a God-given institution and should be taught with that weight, even at Medium lexical risk.

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Parables as a Teaching Method

Persian name: مثل‌ها به عنوان روش تعلیم
Key terms: parable, he told them a parable
Review routing: Native speaker review

مثل is a genuine Quranic-cognate bridge term (amthal) but risks being reduced to generic proverbial wisdom-teaching, a genre already common in Persian and Islamic literature, rather than a specific revelatory vehicle that both discloses and conceals kingdom-truth.

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Temptation and Spiritual Warfare

Persian name: وسوسه و جنگ روحانی
Key terms: tempted, the devil, Satan, get behind me Satan
Review routing: Native speaker review

وسوسه is a genuine bridge with the Quran’s waswas ‘whispering’ category (al-Falaq, al-Nas surahs); شیطان/ابلیس shares the identical Quranic adversary figure but with a different fall narrative (Genesis 3 vs. Quran 7:11-18) that must not be imported as backstory.