In the New Testament, Matthew the Evangelist, or St. Matthew, is introduced as a tax collector from the town of Capernaum on the shores of Galilee. He is called Levi in Luke 5:27 and in Mark 2:14 . He became one of Jesus's twelve apostles.
The Gospel of Matthew is the first (traditionally) of the four gospels of New Testament. Historians generally agree that it was written between 70 and 100 A.D.