Embellishments in the Gospel of Mark.

[Fake Messiah]

Showing your ignorance again I see. Matthew was an educated man, he was a former tax collector, you should read before making yourself look sooooo dumb. The reason we have them in Greek is because they are copies, understand, most likely not. Greek was a language spoken by many in the Middle East at that time, just as English is spoken around the world.

GC

You retard, Matthew wasn't a tax collector but a toll booth worker - read the Matthew 9:9.

Tax collectors would have had to recieve education in accounting and a certain degree of functional literacy for managing records, and not much more especially if he was a toll booth worker like Matthew sitting at a booth to collect tolls. Meaning that Matthew was even lesser than a regular tax collector. 

Also even in the Synoptic Gospels tax collectors are frequently associated with sinners and Gentiles, and that the Pharisees repeatedly accuse Jesus for associating with them. Needless to say this view of Matthew’s occupation does not cast Matthew, a tax collector working at toll booth, as someone deeply familiar with Jewish Law or with extensive religious training.

The author had extensive knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures and a keen concern for Jewish observance and the role of the Law. It is doubtful that a toll booth worker would have the kind of religious and literary education needed to produce this Gospel.

And when it comes to language in Roman Palestine Catherine Hezser in her book "Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine" explains that tax collectors and toll collectors in Judea were jobs performed by Jews collecting either for the Jewish authorities or Jewish contractors, we have every reason to expect that the language of the tax bureaucracy was Hebrew or Aramaic. In fact, she writes:
“The rabbis would try to keep people from registering Greek contracts in public archives, since they would then automatically be taken out of their own sphere of influence. Only Hebrew and Aramaic documents would be subjected to native law, i.e. Torah and rabbinic law in the case of Palestine.”