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Is there any proof outside the Bible for the historicity of Matthew?
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There is no extra-biblical proof of the historicity of the disciple Matthew. Scholars say that the Gospel According to St Matthew was not attributed to the disciple Matthew until the middle of the second century. The reasoning of the Church Fathers was that the Gospel must have been written by an eyewitness to the events in the life of Jesus, and they felt that internal clues in the Gospel pointed to Matthew. However, we now know that Matthew used Mark's Gospel as his primary source on the life of Jesus, somthing that a real eyewitness would not have needed to do.
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