Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 5:28 - 5:28

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 5:28 - 5:28


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28. καταλιπὼν πάντα. It is most probable that St Matthew, like the sons of Jona and of Zebedee, had known something of our Lord before this call. If Alphaeus (Mat 10:3; Mar 2:14) be the same as the father of James the Less, and the same as Clopas (Joh 19:25) the husband of Mary, and if this Mary was the sister of the Virgin, then James and Matthew were cousins of Jesus. The inferences are uncertain, but early Christian tradition points in this direction. It was a rare but not unknown custom to call two sisters by the same names. All such details must be left to conjectural inferences, for ‘the Gospels leave in the shadow all the secondary actors in the great drama.’ The supposition of Heracleon, Clemens Alexandrinus, Ewald, and Keim, that Levi and Matthew were different persons has, however, nothing in its favour.