 The Book of Matthew was not written by Matthew nor was it written by an eyewitness, but I was specifically referring to the 500. No. Uh-uh. Bologna. Matthew wrote Matthew. No, he didn't. He proved that. But there's evidence supporting that. You just go to the earliest. You go to the early church fathers. And they wrote about Matthew writing Matthew, Mark writing Mark, Luke writing Luke and John writing John. It's very clear. Among New Testament scholars in Bible colleges, do they hold that Matthew the apostle wrote the Book of Matthew? Who is a more reliable source of information about who wrote a book? A person who lived 50 to 100 years after the writing or a person who lived 2,000 years after the writing?