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Matthew the Apostle (Saint Matthew) is named in the New Testament as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as Matthew the Evangelist.
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May 2, 2024 · St. Matthew (flourished 1st century ce, Palestine; Western feast day September 21, Eastern feast day November 16) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and the traditional author of the first Synoptic Gospel (the Gospel According to Matthew ).
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The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people (the Jews) but is rejected by them and how, after his resurrection, he sends the disciples to the gentiles instead.
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Even the title "According to Matthew" ( KATA MAQQAION) is found in the earliest manuscripts, and was the most highly regarded and quoted of the gospels by the church fathers. [1] Matthew is also called Levi ( Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27 ), and was the son of Alphaeus ( Luke 5:27 ). He was a tax collector ( telwnhV ), probably stationed on a main trade ...
MATTHEW măth’ u ( Μαθθαῖος, G3414, “gift of Yahweh.”. Possibly a later form of the Heb. name Amittai, meaning “true”). A Jewish tax collector (publican) or revenue officer of Capernaum, also named Levi, called by Jesus to be one of His disciples, also one of the twelve apostles ( Matt 9:9; 10:3; Mark 2:14; Acts 1:13 ).
Sep 7, 2018 · Matthew is a phenomenal work of literature, arranged in a way that presents Jesus as the ultimate Jewish hero: the Messianic son of David, the prophet who surpasses Moses, and the seed of Abraham that blesses all the nations.
It is not thought to have been written by the apostle Matthew, who was one of Jesus' twelve apostles (see below). The Gospel of Matthew is called one of the synoptic gospels because it has some of the same stories and language as the Gospels of Mark and Luke.
