It is uncertain where he was born. When he became an apostle he was living in Capharnaum in Galilee. Eusebius writes that he may have originally been from Syria.
Matthew was a disciple, an apostle as well as an evangelist.
Yes, Matthias was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot as one of the twelve disciples. However, Matthew (also known as Levi) was a different disciple who was already among the original twelve chosen by Jesus.
Saint Matthew was one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus. As a disciple, he followed Jesus, learned from His teachings, and spread the message of Christianity after Jesus' death. Saint Matthew also wrote the first Gospel in the New Testament, which bears his name and recounts the life and teachings of Jesus.
Peter. See Matthew 16:21-23.
A:Mark's Gospel refers to Levi, son of Alphaeus, as a tax collector whom Jesus called to follow him (Mark 2:14). However, for some reason, Mark never again refers to Levi, but introduces other disciples including Matthew and James, son of Alphaeus, as disciples in the full list of the twelve disciples (verses 3:14-19). Disciples are not meant to change their minds when called by Jesus, yet Mark leaves Levi out of his subsequent list of all the twelve apostles. When copying the original gospel, the anonymous author of Matthew resolves this by not mentioning Levi and by having Matthew as the disciple who was a tax collector. Matthew's Gospel is now widely known to have been based substantially on Mark, and its author could not possibly have known anything about Levi that was not to be found in Mark, but this usage in Matthew means that it has become accepted by Christians that Matthew and Levi were one and the same person. On this understanding, Matthew's father was Alphaeus, but the author of Mark's Gospel does not appear to have intended this. The gospels do not tell us his mother's name.
The disciple Matthew is believed to have been martyred by being stabbed to death in Ethiopia.
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Disciple
Yes, Matthew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.
If Matthew the disciple/apostle had a wife we are not told about it in the Bible.
Matthew was a disciple, an apostle as well as an evangelist.
Matthew 10:1-4
Yes, Matthew was a tax collector.
The Bible does not tell us the stature of the disciples.
Peter. Matthew 16:16.
Peter (Matthew 14:28-31)
John Finlayson - disciple - was born in 1770.