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==Date==

==Date==

There are different thoughts on when it was written.  If Mark was written first, then depending upon when Mark was written, Matthew would have to have been written after it.  Dates from the late 50's all the way to the 70's or beyond are speculated. Some believe that based on the Jewish character of Matthew, that it must have been written when the church was still mostly Jewish, and so they believe it was written in 50 or so and was the first gospel subsequently drawn upon by Mark and Luke.

There are different thoughts on when it was written.  If Mark was written first, then depending upon when Mark was written, Matthew would have to have been written after it.   

 

Scholars estimate that Matthew wrote his gospel in AD late 50s or early 60s.  Church father Irenaeus commented that “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at [[Rome]], and laying the foundations of the Church.”<ref>https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/02/15/the-earliest-new-testament-manuscripts/</ref>  The deaths of Peter and Paul in Rome are well-document: AD 64 or 67 (Peter) and AD May or June 68 (Paul).

 

Some believe that based on the Jewish character of Matthew, that it must have been written when the church was still mostly Jewish, and so they believe it was written in 50 or so and was the first gospel subsequently drawn upon by Mark and Luke.

==See also==

==See also==