Biography of saint matthew for kids

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    Matthew the Evangelist facts for kids

    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, a claim rejected by most biblical scholars, though the "traditional authorship still has its defenders."

    The New Testament records that as a disciple, he followed Jesus.

    Later Church fathers such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria claim that Matthew preached the gospel to the Jewish community in Judea, before going to other countries.

    In the New Testament

    Matthew in a painted miniature from a volume of Armenian Gospels dated 1609, held by the Bodleian Library

    Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 and Matthew 10:3 as a tax collector (in the NIV) who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus.

    He is also listed among the Twelve Disc