| 139:7.10 When these [[persecutions]] caused the believers to forsake [[Jerusalem]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Matthew Matthew] [[journeyed]] north, [[preaching]] the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] and [[baptizing]] believers. He was lost to the [[knowledge]] of his former apostolic associates, but on he went, [[preaching]] and [[baptizing]], through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syria], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia Cappadocia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatia Galatia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bithynia Bithynia], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace Thrace]. And it was in Thrace, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimachia_(Thrace) Lysimachia], that certain unbelieving [[Jews]] conspired with the Roman soldiers to encompass his [[death]]. And this regenerated publican died triumphant in the [[faith]] of a [[salvation]] he had so surely learned from the teachings of [[the Master]] during his recent [[sojourn]] on [[earth]]. | | 139:7.10 When these [[persecutions]] caused the believers to forsake [[Jerusalem]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Matthew Matthew] [[journeyed]] north, [[preaching]] the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] and [[baptizing]] believers. He was lost to the [[knowledge]] of his former apostolic associates, but on he went, [[preaching]] and [[baptizing]], through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syria], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia Cappadocia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatia Galatia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bithynia Bithynia], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace Thrace]. And it was in Thrace, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimachia_(Thrace) Lysimachia], that certain unbelieving [[Jews]] conspired with the Roman soldiers to encompass his [[death]]. And this regenerated publican died triumphant in the [[faith]] of a [[salvation]] he had so surely learned from the teachings of [[the Master]] during his recent [[sojourn]] on [[earth]]. |