What was Matthew's other name in the Gospels of Mark and Luke?

Answer 1

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Actually, neither Mark nor Luke tells us that Matthew was called by any other name, although Matthew's Gospel implies that he was also known as Levi.

Mark's Gospel mentions both Matthew and Levi separately, referring to Levi, son of Alpheus (Alphaeus) as a tax collector whom Jesus called to follow him (Mark 2:14). Mark never again refers to Levi, who is not mentioned in the full list of the twelve disciples (verses 3:14-19), where Mark introduces other disciples including Matthew, Thaddeus (Thaddaeus), and James, son of Alpheus. Here there is no good reason to see Levi and Matthew as being the same person. Luke follows Mark closely, in that it mentions Levi but only in the context of a story in which Jesus is criticised for consorting with tax collectors, with Matthew being one of the twelve (Luke 6:15).

Disciples are not meant to change their minds when called by Jesus, yet this seems to happen when Mark omits Levi in the list of all the twelve apostles. Matthew's Gospel is known to have been based substantially on Mark and, when copying the original gospel, its anonymous author resolves Levi's unexplained absence simply by not mentioning Levi at all, and by having Matthew as the disciple who was a tax collector, so that two thousand years of tradition have held that Levi and Matthew must be the same person.

Answer 2

Matthew is also called Levi.

Answer 3

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