The St. Matthews Passion is the giant among the J.S. Bach works, it has everything. But that being said, it's smaller sibling also has a lot going for it, for example a rousing cinematic beginning which is particularly forceful in Gardiners breezy interpretation:
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition