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THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
The ninth verse of the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew
reads as follows: “And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw
a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he
saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.”
(Matt: 9-9) Now, please pay close attention to this point: if
Matthew himself wrote these statements, why did he use the name
Matthew in the third person instead of speaking as Matthew
himself? [If the author of this Gospel had been Matthew himself,
he would have said, “As I was sitting at the customs place, Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ passed by. When he saw me he told me to follow
him, to walk behind him. So I stood up and followed him, walked
behind him.”]
In the Gospel of Matthew, every speech quoted from Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ is so long that it is impossible to say any one of them
at one sitting, at one time. In fact, the advice and the directions
that he gave to the apostles in the tenth chapter, his continuous
words in the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters, his scolding of the
Persians in the twenty-third chapter, his continuous
exemplifications in the eighth chapter are absolutely not short
enough to occur within one sitting. A proof of this is that these
same speeches and exemplifications of his are divided into various
sittings in the other Gospels. This means to say that the author of
this Gospel is not Matthew, the customs officer, the faithful
companion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’.
In the Gospel of Matthew, miracles (mu’jiza) of Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’
such as his curing the poor people who were blind, leprous
or paralyzed, his feeding large numbers of poor people, are
mentioned at two different places each. The Gospels of Mark and
Luke, on the other hand, mention each of these events at one
place. Hence, the author of the Gospel attributed to Matthew
probably consulted two sources when writing the book and saw the
same event in both sources. Then, perhaps, thinking the two events
were different, he wrote them as such in his book.
It is written in the fifth verse of the tenth chapter of the
Gospel of Matthew that hadrat Îsâ commanded his messengers,
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