PostmodernProph
....fully immersed....
it is true that Matthew wrote for a Jewish audience, just as Mark wrote for a Greek audience......being members of the same early church it is obvious that they also were aware of each other and being contemporaries of Jesus, its also obvious they experienced many of the same things.....The author of Matthew had obviously gotten his information from Mark's gospel and used them for his own needs. He fashioned his narrative to appeal to Jewish tradition and Scripture. He improved the grammar of Mark's Gospel, corrected what he felt theologically important, and heightened the miracles and magic.