Matthew the Apostle

==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#Tax collectors in the Bible|tax collector]] (in the [[NIV]]) 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.