Matthew
The
apostle Matthew was a tax collector, and one of the Gospels bears his name.
Like Mark's, the book was written anonymously and the name attached to it
later. Maybe it contains some of Matthew's recollections buried in it
somewhere. Maybe not. In any case, it's the man who wrote it who's of chief
interest here, and all we know about him is what his book tells us. He didn't
write it from scratch, but included virtually all of Mark in it plus a
collection of the sayings of Jesus that seems to have been floating around plus
some other material peculiar to him. It's what he did with it all that tells
the kind of man he was. More
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