كاتب انجيل متى هو متى احد تلاميذ المسيح
ففي كتاب قانونية العهد الجديد لبروس متزكر قال بابياس ان متى كتب اقوال المسيح
If ever anyone came who had been a follower of the presbyters20 I
inquired into the words of the presbyters, what Andrew or Peter or
Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the
Lord's disciples had said, and what Aristion and the presbyter John,
the Lord's disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information
from books would help me so much as the utterances of a living and
From this quotation it is clear that the sayings of the Lord
which Papias undertook to explain were drawn not only from
written documents but also from oral tradition. His informants
of what Andrew, Peter, Philip, Thomas, James, John, and
Matthew had said, or what Aristion and the presbyter John
were saying, must have been Palestinian Christians who had
emigrated to Asia Minor after the fall of Jerusalem in 70. They
obviously enjoyed considerable prestige from the fact that they
had lived in the same country with Jesus, and so were
considered to be bearers of a tradition that was particularly
authentic and precious. Papias thus recognized two sources of
Christian tradition: one was conveyed by word of mouth, the
other was embodied in written gospels









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