First century A.D.

Matthew

Worth knowing

A tax collector at Capernaum whom Jesus called to follow him (Matthew 9:9), and one of the Twelve.
Early church writers credit him with the first Gospel. Papias, around A.D. 110, says Matthew compiled the sayings of Jesus in the Hebrew language.
His Gospel keeps pointing back to the Old Testament with the words "that it might be fulfilled." It argues that Jesus is the one the prophets were waiting for.

In Scholar’s Dream, Matthew has one book

The Coin-Bearerthe fish of Matthew 17:27Bible

Matthew’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Matthew that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“Go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.”
Matthew 17:27 (WEB).

How it works in the game: the move The Stater in Its Mouth

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In the gamePeter found a coin, a stater, in the mouth of a fish, enough to pay the temple tax. The staters in your purse are named after it. God provided from a direction nobody was watching.

Learned byThe Coin-Bearer (Lv 1)

Who else was alive

Matthew against everyone else in the game.

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Matthew Paul John Mark Pliny the Elder Clement of Rome Ignatius An early Christian community Polycarp Claudius Ptolemy Hermas Justin Martyr Aristides Quadratus Melito Unknown authors writing under borrowed names Irenaeus The author of the Epistle to Diognetus Athenagoras Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Marcus Minucius Felix Origen Cyprian Plotinus Lactantius Eusebius Athanasius Eustathius of Sebaste Apollinaris of Laodicea Cyril of Jerusalem Epiphanius of Salamis Gregory of Nazianzus Basil of Caesarea Eunomius of Cyzicus Gregory of Nyssa Ambrose of Milan Jovinian Augustine The Macedonians Helvidius

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