General Introduction

The consistent tradition handed down from the early church regards the author of the Gospel of Matthew as the Apostle Matthew, one of the twelve disciples. Church tradition has regarded Matthew the tax collector in Matthew 9:9 and Levi in Mark 2:14 and Luke 5:27 as the same person. However, since the Gospel texts do not directly state that Levi is Matthew, it is more accurate to introduce this as the traditional view that they are the same person, rather than to assert that Matthew’s original name was Levi. When Jesus called him as he was sitting at the tax office, he left everything and followed Him (Matthew 9:9), and he afterward became one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3).

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