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This pseudo-Matthew dates from the middle or the end of the sixth century. The Latin Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthew on 21 September, and the Greek Church on 16 November. St. Matthew is represented under the symbol of a winged man, carrying in his hand a lance as a characteristic emblem. - St. Matthew (Catholic Encyclopaedia)
One wonders how Simon felt about Matthew, who would have been considered a traitor by the Jews because he was a tax-collector for Rome. The Bible reveals nothing significant about this apostle. Judas Iscariot was the traitor (Matthew 10:4) who later hung himself (Matthew 27:3-6) and was therefore not listed with the disciples in the book of Acts.
What is important is that two apostles (Matthew and John) and two companions (Mark and Luke) of Paul, the apostle, wrote the gospels. The gospels of Mark and Matthew were written about A.D. 50-60 (17 to 27 years after Christ). The gospel of Luke was written about A.D. 60-61 (27 years after Jesus’ death) and John was written about A.D. 80-90.
The date of the Apostle John's death seems to typically be put at around AD 100. However, the accounts I've found only attribute this to 'tradition'. For example, this article How did the apostle John die? says "tradition gives us a few theories [...] He died as an old man sometime after AD 98[.]" This article references Foxe's Book of Martyrs ...
The death of St. Peter is attested to by Tertullian at the end of the 2nd century, and by Origen in Eusebius, Church History III.1. Origen says: "Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer."[17] This is why an upside down cross is generally accepted as a symbol of Peter, who would not have ...
Matthew’s Death. The New Testament does not tell us how the twelve apostles died. Tradition says that Matthew preached in Judea after Jesus returned to heaven for about fifteen years, and then preached in other nations. 1. Some claim that Matthew died a martyr’s death in Ethiopia. But this does not agree with the opinion of many early ...
Previous to this, according to Tertullian's testimony (De praescript., xxxvi), John had been thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil before the Porta Latina at Rome without suffering injury. After Domitian's death the Apostle returned to Ephesus during the reign of Trajan, and at Ephesus he died about A.D. 100 at a great age.
Apostle, son of Zebedee (Luke 6:13-16, Mark 3:16-19) He and his brother John (also an Apostle) were given the nicknames Sons of Thunder by Christ (Mark 3:16-19) His mother Salome was one of the women who followed Jesus, ministering to him, and was there when Jesus died (Matthew 27:55-56, Mark 15:40, Mark 16:1).
In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus does not appear to the apostles in Jerusalem, but in Galilee, and it is clear that he met only the remaining eleven: Matthew 28:16 : Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Nowhere does it state Luke was a fishermen, Mathew was an educated person and a Tax Collector. John was not a fishermen either. That leaves Mark, who not an apostle never indicates he was a fishermen. Nowhere does it suggest that they were literate or actually put paper to parchment themselves. –