Matthew, called Levi in Mark and Luke, was a Galilean tax collector summoned by Jesus from his customs booth and numbered among the Twelve Apostles. The universal early tradition, attested by Papias around 130 and by Irenaeus around 180, records that he composed a Gospel in Hebrew for Jewish believers before carrying the apostolic preaching to other peoples. The church remembers him on September 21 as the apostle who put the Lord's deeds and sayings into writing for the household of Israel and, through that writing, for the world.