The subsequent discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many of which are Hebrew compositions, as well as of other Hebrew documents from Palestine from the general time period of Jesus, now show Hebrew to have been alive and well in the first century. ”
निःसन्देह मत्ती ने यह सुसमाचार इब्रानी मसीहियों के लाभ के लिये लिखा होगा परन्तु उसे सामान्य यूनानी भाषा में भी अनुवाद किया होगा ।