Matthew, Book of
Date of the Writing of Matthew
"A comparison of the Synoptic gospels reveals that Matthew refers to the Sadducees the most. It seems odd that he would do so if he wrote after the fall since they had already disappeared after the fall of Jerusalem because of their political cooperation with Rome." (D. G. Conklin, "A Study on the Synoptic Gospels" Part 1: The Date of the Gospels)
"...Careful examination of several features makes it probable that Matthew (in Greek) is earlier than AD 70, since he does not allude to the fall of Jerusalem, a matter which was so important to a Jew like himself that he could not have passed it over in silence." (Luigi Pareti, The Ancient World)
"After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, "Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?'" - Matthew 17:24
"R.T. France [Matthew--Evangelist and Teacher (1989) ], page 906, notes that there are a number of passages in Matthew 'which presuppose that the temple was still intact (5:23-24; 17:24-27; 23:16-22); and these have not been edited out in the way a writer after AD 70 might have been expected to do.' (D. G. Conklin, "A Study on the Synoptic Gospels" Part 1: The Date of the Gospels)
"So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day."
- Matthew 27:7-8
"Would someone writing after the fall of Jerusalem know where the Field of Blood was located (Mt. 27:8)? Would anyone be interested in a rumor from that day and age that His disciples had stolen His body (Mt 28:15)?" (D. G. Conklin, "A Study on the Synoptic Gospels" Part 1: The Date of the Gospels)
"When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
- Matthew 10:23
"Theodor Zahn, a classicist and NT scholar, wrote a commentary on Matthew back in 1903. He wrote that: 'Mt would hardly have written v. 23 if the escape of the Christians [to Pella] had already taken place at the time of his writing. Our gospel is written before A.D. 66.' (Das Evangelium des Matthaus (Leipzig/Erlangen, 1903; 4th ed., 1922; repr. Wuppertal/Zurich, 1984), p. 407. Quoted by Thiede and D'Ancona, page 12.)" (D. G. Conklin, "A Study on the Synoptic Gospels" Part 1: The Date of the Gospels)
"The situation presupposed by Matthew corresponds to what is known about Christianity in Palestine between A.D. 50 and ca. 64, but not after the flight of the Christians in ca. 64 and the start of the Jewish war in A.D. 66." (Bo Reicke, "Synoptic Prophecies on the Destruction of Jerusalem" in Studies in New Testament and Early Christian Literature: Essays in Honor of Allen P. Wikgren, p. 133)
"The arguments for Matthean priority, though not overwhelming, are substantial. Matthew looks original. His eight thousand supposed departures from Mark's text are cleverly disguised. It looks early and Palestinian, reflecting a terrible clash between Jesus and the religious authorities, rather than a post-70 clash between church and synagogue. Mark looks like Peter's version of the same Palestinian tradition composed for Jewish and Gentile readers outside Palestine. Mark shows signs of conspicuously making omission, e.g. parables." (John Wenham, Redating Matthew, Mark & Luke (1991), p. 88)
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