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According to Tradition, after [[Pentecost]] St. Matthew preached the [[gospel|Good News]] of the Lord's Resurrection throughout Palestine. Then, "at the request of the Jewish converts at Jerusalem, the holy Apostle Matthew wrote his Gospel describing the earthly life of the Savior before leaving to preach the Gospel in faraway lands."<ref name="OCA">[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=103313 Apostle and Evangelist Matthew] ([[OCA]])</ref> He then left to preach his Gospel in Syria, Media, Persia, Parthia, before being martyred in Ethiopia.
Because it was first recorded in Palestine, there is some speculation and evidence that Matthew's Gospel was originally written in [[Aramaic]], though the earliest surviving version now in existence is in Greek. According to the [[OCA]], "many of the linguistic and cultural-historical peculiarities of the Greek translation give indications of it [the Gospel's original Aramaic form]."<ref name="OCA" /> It was probably written somewhere from AD 60-65, though more liberal scholars put the date at 80-100.
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