Editing Matthew the Apostle (section)

==In the New Testament==
[[File:Bodleian Library MS. Arm. d.13. Armenian Gospels-0039-0.jpg|thumb|upright|Matthew in a painted miniature from a volume of Armenian Gospels dated 1609, held by the [[Bodleian Library]]]]
Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9<ref>{{bibleverse|Matthew|9:9|NIV}}</ref> and Matthew 10:3<ref>{{bibleref|Matthew|10:3|NIV}}</ref> as a [[tax collector]] (in the [[NIV|New International Version]] and other translations of the Bible) who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in [[Capernaum]], was called to follow Jesus.<ref>{{bibleverse|Matthew|9:9}},{{bibleverse|Mark|2:15–17}}, {{bibleverse|Luke|5:29}}</ref> He is also listed among the [[Twelve Disciples]], but without identification of his background, in Mark 3:18, Luke 6:15 and Acts 1:13.<ref>{{bibleverse|Mark|3:18}}, {{bibleverse|Luke|6:15}} and {{bibleverse|Acts|1:13}}.</ref> In passages parallel to [[Matthew 9:9]], both Mark 2:14<ref>{{bibleverse|Mark|2:14}}</ref> and Luke 5:27<ref>{{bibleverse|Luke|5:27}}</ref> describe Jesus's calling of the tax collector Levi, the son of Alphaeus. However, they do not explicitly associate it with the name Matthew.

Since the father of both Levi/Matthew and [[James, son of Alphaeus]] is named [[Alphaeus]], according to the tradition of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] the two apostles were brothers.<ref name="Prologue of Ohrid">{{cite web| url=http://westserbdio.org/en/prologue/657-october-9 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502033042/http://westserbdio.org/en/prologue/657-october-9 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2017-05-02 | title=Nikolaj Velimirović ''Prologue of Ohrid''}}</ref><ref name="ibn Kabar">{{cite web | url=https://stnoufer.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-lamp-that-lights-the-darkness-ibn-kabar.pdf | title=Shams ibn Kabar ''The Lamp that Lights the Darkness in Clarifying the Service'' | access-date=21 October 2022 | archive-date=13 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013175903/https://stnoufer.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-lamp-that-lights-the-darkness-ibn-kabar.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>