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| In the early first century, a small group of people in and about ] started to claim that a young man named Jesus was the promised ]ish ]. They said that the ]s had executed Jesus, and ] had raised him from the dead. | |||
| In the year ], the province of ] rose in revolt against the Romans. According to some writers, during this period of instability, temple priests loyal to ] murdered the group’s leader, ]. In the suppression of the rebellion, Roman troops depopulated and destroyed much of Judaea, including the city of Jerusalem. | |||
| One account of the life and teachings of Jesus perhaps dating from this time was written by a person named Matthew. According to the Church Fathers, he was the same person as the ] Matthew, and his account was written in ]. Although circulated among Jewish followers of Jesus, this ''Gospel of the Hebrews'' was little known among the churches founded by ], for even among Paul's literate followers few were fluent in Aramaic written in ]. | |||
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Authentic Matthew is a name given, according to Jerome's Commentary on Matthew ch. 2 , to a gospel identical to the Gospel of the Hebrews: "In the Gospel which the Nazarenes and the Ebionites use which we have recently translated from Hebrew to Greek, and which most people call the Authentic Gospel of Matthew...". It was called Authentic Matthew because a tradition, reported by Jerome, asserted that it was actually written by the apostle Matthew. Authentic Matthew is a lost gospel that has been at least partially preserved in the works of some of the Church Fathers.