活動時期西元1世紀 耶穌十二使徒之一，相傳爲第一部福音書的作者。根據福音書的記載，當耶穌召喚馬太跟從他時，他是一名稅官，叫利未（Levi）。其他關於他的記載很少。〈馬太福音〉是用來在猶太人中對猶太－基督教徒傳教的，原文可能是用希伯來語所寫，但現在有人懷疑〈馬太福音〉是否由馬太所作。傳說中馬太曾在被派往衣索比亞和波斯傳教後又到猶太傳教。關於他是否殉教而死，傳說不一。 padding-bottom: 66.56%;">One of the Twelve Apostles, traditional author of the first Gospel. According to the Gospels, he was a tax collector known as Levi when Jesus called him to be a disciple. Other information about him is scarce. The Gospel of Matthew is directed at a Jewish-Christian audience in a Jewish environment and may have been written originally in Hebrew, but it is now doubted that the Apostle Matthew was its author. Tradition holds that Matthew conducted his ministry in Judaea, after which he served as a missionary to Ethiopia and Persia. Legend differs as to whether he died a martyr's death.
