To begin with, Saint Matthew's სახარება was written either in Hebrew or Aramaic, not in Greek.1 That Greek assigns gender to words posed a certain difficulty for the scribes, who later translated the სახარება into that language, as petra, a feminine word, was unfit to serve as the Apostle's name.
Okokuqala, UMathewu Ongcwele IVangeli yayibhalwe ngesiHeberu noma ngesi-Aramu, hhayi ngesiGreki.1 Lesi siGreki sinikeza ubulili kumagama kubangele ubunzima obuthile kubabhali, okwathi kamuva wahumusha i- IVangeli kulolo limi, njenge-petra, igama lesifazane, yayingakulungele ukusebenza njengegama loMphostoli.