>>18115423
Matthew is my favorite evangelist because he was the dumbest one by far. Really, he's the worst, you can almost see him awkwardly digging through the OT looking for "prophetic" stuff for his version of Jesus to fulfill when you read his gospel. Right off the bat, in Matthew 2:15, he takes Hosea 11:1, a verse about the Exodus, and goes "fuck it, this is a Jesus prophecy now lol" (which is made even worse by the fact it contradicts Luke's account, who says nothing about Jesus and his family ever going to Egypt). He mixes up two entirely different books (Jeremiah and Zechariah) while fabricating a prophecy about Judas' death (Matthew 27:9) and there are apologists still struggling to accept his fuckup nearly 2000 years later. He's also the one who invented the virgin birth (reason why you don't find it in Mark, nor in John, nor anywhere in the epistles, only in Luke who used it as source material).
Fun fact: Matthew's genealogy of Jesus includes Jeconiah (also called Jehoiachin), but in Luke’s genealogy, Jeconiah’s name is absent. The issue here is that Jeconiah was cursed in Jeremiah 22:30, where it is stated that none of his descendants would ever rule over Israel. This curse is crucial because, after Jeconiah's reign, his uncle, not his son, ascended to the throne, effectively fulfilling the prophecy that Jeconiah's descendants would not rule Israel. Matthew was aware of this curse and tried to fix it by removing him from the genealogy but confused Jeconiah with his father Jehoiakim and accidentally removed the father instead.
Matthew was such a fuckup he also got Jeremiah and Zechariah mixed up while concocting a prophecy about Judas' death in Matthew 27:9 (which contradicts the account of his death in Acts 1:18 on top of it).