The author of this book is anonymous and was probably written in the last third of the first century. Scholars think the author may have been working off a collection of Jesus' sayings compiled by the apostle Matthew that is now lost. Over time, the book itself was associated with Matthew himself being the author.
Asimov notes that "gospel" means "good news" in that they are not so much a biography of Jesus but rather an account of the higher meaning of his life. Matthew, Mark and Luke are very similar and are therefore called the "synoptic" or "with one eye" gospels. Matthew traditionally comes first in the New Testament, but Mark was probably written first as Matthew and Luke include all of Mark, but also details that appear to have been from lost sources.
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