Answer:
- Matthew the Epistle
- Hebrew
- Tax-collector
Explanation:
The gospel now known as the Gospel of Matthew was anonymous.
Papias attributed a gospel to Matthew in the second century, according to what Eusebius wrote in the fourth century. However, several academics are unsure whether the gospel descibed by Papias was the same now attributed to Matthew.
Although the Church Fathers of the second century stated that Matthew's Gospel was written in Hebrew by Matthew himself, modern scholars agree that it was most likely written in Greek, and not by an eyewitness to the events described. Furthermore,
and Luke's Gospel, it soon becomes apparent that
Both Matthew and Luke seem to have been substantially based on Mark's Gospel.
