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Matthew the Apostle

Matthaeus la ܡܬܝ ܡܟܣܐ arc

Christian evangelist and apostle (10-74)

  • Child of Alphaeus, Mary Jacobi and Alphaeus
  • Traditionally 1st century CE – 74 CE
  • Recognised as Saint

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Family tree

As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.

The family as a list · 4

Kinship in an account 4

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Matthew the Apostle Christian evangelist and apostle (10-74)

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

Connections

Affiliation 2

Recorded events and days 1

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