Tax collector, not Tax official.

Thanks Ranajit Pal...now corrected.

I have written that St. Matthew may have been the very rich man Matius who was a financier of Julius Caesar. F. Carotta says that the Jesus myth developed from the Julius Caesar myth which has a grain of truth but is not fully correct. Julius Caesar sympathized with the poor and was a precursor of Jesus. Shakespeare swallowed the Roman accounts and grossly distorted the life history of Julius Caesar. Matius' writings in defense of Julius Caesar after his murder show him as a man of noble character. He was initially a partisan of Augustus but probably switched over to Amyntas of Galatia who, in my view, was Jesus Amen. He was only a client king but issued gold coins. This may be due to the support of Matius.

Tax collectors in those days were social outcasts and devout Jews avoided these fellow Jews because they were usually dishonest and worked for Rome. Matthew or Levi , became an author of one of the accounts of the life of Christ known as the book of Matthew. Jesus is said to have had dinner with many such Tax Collectors.

Mathun GARVthi unchun thai jai !!!

good - like the picture it speaks for itself