Indeed not, mustn't get the churches' hands dirty--just pass them on the secular authorities who will be happy to complete the job, in return for, say, a free pass into heaven...as they did at the beginning of the 1st crusade against the infidels--any old infidels seemed to do.
St. Matthew is no more responsible for Hitler twisting his Gospel than is Darwin responsible for Hitler twisting his theory.
I believe I disagree, Mathhew and John had a distinct agenda that colored their choice of rhetoric, because one of the functions of the bible was to undercut the Orthodox hebrew religion, the chief source of converts to christianity. Thereby initiating the practice of using biblical passages to condemn jews--as happened again and again on easter sunday, when the story of the passion of christ repeatedly sparked pograms throughout the Middle Ages. Unless, of course, said jew was sephardic, and trying to pass as christian, than the Society of Jesus was allowed to murder them directly, after a prescribed amount of Holy torture.
I would not necessarily say undercut, but to show the old 'observing of the law' was worthless and impossible to please God with.
(Read HEBREWS, Romans, Galatioans, Ephesians...)