"Date written: 50s or 60s. Although the gospel has sometimes been dated in the 80s or 90s, the fact that the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 is viewed as an event yet future (Matt 24:2) seems to require an earlier date. Some feel that this was the first of the Gospels to be written (about A.D. 50), while others think it was not the first and that it was written in the 60s." (Ryrie)
"The instrument chosen by the Holy Spirit to write this Gospel was Matthew. He was a Jew. However, he did not belong to the religious, educated class, to the scribes; but he belonged to the class which was most bitterly hatted. He was a publican, that is a tax gatherer. The Roman government had appointed officials whose duty it was to have the legal tax gathered, and these officials, mostly, if not all Gentiles, appointed the actual collectors, who were generally Jews. Only the most unscrupulous among the Jews would hire themselves out for the sake of gain to the avowed enemy of Jerusalem. Wherever there was still a ray of hope for Messiah's coming, the Jew would naturally shrink from being associated with the Gentiles, who were to be swept away from the land with the coming of the King. For this reason the tax gatherers, being Roman employees, were hated by the Jews even more bitterly than the Gentiles themselves. Such a hated tax gatherer was the writer of the first Gospel ... Internal evidences seem to show that most likely originally Matthew wrote the Gospel in Aramaeic, the Semitic dialect then spoken in Palestine. The Gospel was later translated into Greek. This, however, is certain, that the Gospel of Matthew is pre-eminently the Jewish Gospel." (Gaebelein)
"Matthew, was surnamed Levi (Mark 2:14), was a Jewish tax-gatherer (publican) for the Roman government (Matt 9:9). Because he collaborated with the Romans, who were hated by the Jews as overlords of their country, Matthew (and all tax collectors) was despised by fellow Jews. Nevertheless, Matthew responded to Christ's simple call to follow Him. After the account of the banquet he gave for his colleagues so that they too could meet Jesus, he is not mentioned again except in the list of the Twelve (Matt 10:3; see also Acts 1:13). Tradition says that he preached in Palestine for a dozen years after the resurrection of Christ and then went to other lands, but there is no certainty of this." (Ryrie)
"Matthew was written to Jews to answer their questions about Jesus of Nazareth who claimed to be their Messiah. Was He in fact the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament?" (Ryrie)
Four hundred years intervene between Malachi and Matthew; and four hundred and fifty years after Ezra 1:1, as predicted in Daniel 9:25, the Messiah was born. In this First Gospel He is presented as the King of Israel (Jer 23:5-6;33:15; Zech 9:9). Hence His pedigree is given from Abraham and David, and He is portrayed as The Branch, The King. In the other three Gospels He is presented as The Branch, The Servant (Mark); The Branch, The Man (Luke); and The Branch, Jehovah (John) ... This Gospels sets forth the Messiah's claim as king. Events in His ministry are therefore recorded and emphasized which do not appear in the other Gospels." (Williams)
"The instrument chosen by the Holy Spirit to write this Gospel was Matthew. He was a Jew. However, he did not belong to the religious, educated class, to the scribes; but he belonged to the class which was most bitterly hatted. He was a publican, that is a tax gatherer. The Roman government had appointed officials whose duty it was to have the legal tax gathered, and these officials, mostly, if not all Gentiles, appointed the actual collectors, who were generally Jews. Only the most unscrupulous among the Jews would hire themselves out for the sake of gain to the avowed enemy of Jerusalem. Wherever there was still a ray of hope for Messiah's coming, the Jew would naturally shrink from being associated with the Gentiles, who were to be swept away from the land with the coming of the King. For this reason the tax gatherers, being Roman employees, were hated by the Jews even more bitterly than the Gentiles themselves. Such a hated tax gatherer was the writer of the first Gospel ... Internal evidences seem to show that most likely originally Matthew wrote the Gospel in Aramaeic, the Semitic dialect then spoken in Palestine. The Gospel was later translated into Greek. This, however, is certain, that the Gospel of Matthew is pre-eminently the Jewish Gospel." (Gaebelein)
"Matthew, was surnamed Levi (Mark 2:14), was a Jewish tax-gatherer (publican) for the Roman government (Matt 9:9). Because he collaborated with the Romans, who were hated by the Jews as overlords of their country, Matthew (and all tax collectors) was despised by fellow Jews. Nevertheless, Matthew responded to Christ's simple call to follow Him. After the account of the banquet he gave for his colleagues so that they too could meet Jesus, he is not mentioned again except in the list of the Twelve (Matt 10:3; see also Acts 1:13). Tradition says that he preached in Palestine for a dozen years after the resurrection of Christ and then went to other lands, but there is no certainty of this." (Ryrie)
"Matthew was written to Jews to answer their questions about Jesus of Nazareth who claimed to be their Messiah. Was He in fact the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament?" (Ryrie)
Four hundred years intervene between Malachi and Matthew; and four hundred and fifty years after Ezra 1:1, as predicted in Daniel 9:25, the Messiah was born. In this First Gospel He is presented as the King of Israel (Jer 23:5-6;33:15; Zech 9:9). Hence His pedigree is given from Abraham and David, and He is portrayed as The Branch, The King. In the other three Gospels He is presented as The Branch, The Servant (Mark); The Branch, The Man (Luke); and The Branch, Jehovah (John) ... This Gospels sets forth the Messiah's claim as king. Events in His ministry are therefore recorded and emphasized which do not appear in the other Gospels." (Williams)
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