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The Gospel of the Nazareans

The Gospel of the Nazareans is also called The Jewish Gospel.  It was written from 100-150 C.E.  Many say that the Gospel of the Nazareans might have been a loose translation of the book of Matthew, but in Aramaic.  But there are others scholars who say that there are different stories in both of them, which makes it hard to know if the author of Matthew and the author of the Gospel of Nazareans are some how related.  In a small community in Western Syria, the Nazareans lived, where many scholars believed that it was the location were the Gospel of the Nazareans was probably composed during the second century.  Many scholars think that this might be the location where Matthew was composed, too.  The bad news is that we don't have a copy of the Gospel of the Nazareans, we just have some quotes from the Gospel of the Nazareans quoted in other written sources.