Biography of the evangelist

The prayer to Matthew Matthew the Life of the Evangelist Matthew on the second day of the Christmas post, November 29, the Orthodox Church recalls the Holy Apostle and the Evangelist Matthew - one of the nearest twelve disciples of Christ. His story is especially touching, although the details of the life of the Holy Apostle Matthew have not reached us. Luke is known.

Hearing the sermon of Christ, he invited him to go to his house. After a meeting with Christ Levi, the Jewish name Matthew repented, distributed property and followed the Savior. Among all the books of the New Testament, it is the Gospel of Matthew that is the very first. The history of the apostles is amazing in that it is a direct proof of the divine origin of the Savior.

After Jesus was crucified, the apostles, who left their homes and followed the teacher, had to remain completely broken. It would be logical if they left the ministry, renounced Christ and went home. But something else happened. The apostles, completely different people, united by the very great idea on Earth, went to preach, voluntarily accepting the martyrdom. Everyone knew how he risks, telling about Christ, but did not leave his ministry.

This only suggests that the Evangelist Matthew, among others, saw something completely amazing - Christ the resurrected. Otherwise, he had to consider himself deceived, because the promises of the one whom he revered was not fulfilled by the Savior! Words from all the books of the New Testament convince us of the opposite. The evangelist Matthew preached and wrote the Gospel, voluntarily accepted torment for faith in Christ and his sermon.

After Pentecost, Matthew preach in Palestine for 8 years. There he recorded his gospel in Jewish. The original text did not reach us, but the Greek translation from it entered the canon of the New Testament as his first book - the Gospel of Matthew. In Ethiopia, he took a martyrdom. The story of the Evangelist Matthew is associated with many miracles that he created for the glory of God.

So, in Ethiopia, the apostle warmly prayed for the appeal of the people to the true faith. In the country where he had to preach, cannibalism and the most cruel pagan beliefs flourished. Having appeared to the Gospelist Matthew in the image of a young man, the Lord himself ordered him to put a rod at the door of the temple. A tree was supposed to grow from this rod, and a source of water would appear at the foot of this tree.

The apostle healed them, but for this the ruler accused him of witchcraft, although many local residents, on the contrary, turned to Christianity. They tried to set fire to the apostle, but the flame was powerless in front of him and did not harm him. When the evangelist Matthew went to the Lord, his body was thrown into the sea in an iron coffin, the relics of the apostle were not touched by the water.

Then the ruler Fluvian believed and was baptized with the name Matthew. Prayer to the evangelist Matthew O, the glorious Apostle Matthew, who betrayed the soul for Christ and to swallow him with your blood! Hear the children of your prayer and sighing, now crushed by your heart. E -Board in lawlessness, and for the sake of troubles, as well as clouds, he was leaned, but the good life of the life is with a worship, and it is not possible to oppose the wolf of the predatory, and even to plunder the legacy of God are in the breath.

Oh, strong! Those our weaknesses, do not leave the spirit from us, but we will not be separated by the end of the love of God, but by your strong intercession to protect us, may the Lord have mercy on your prayers for the sake of all of us, and the manuscript of our immense sins will be destroyed, and may he be supplied with all the holy blessed kingdom and the marriage of his lag, he will also have an honor and worship and worship, and worship and worship, and worship and worship.

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