Verified by Jesus? Jesus wrote nothing. We only have what was written by anonymous authors four decades after the described events. None of which addresses the failure of prophesy in Daniel. -------------------- We can be grateful to Jehovah that he has seen to it that the inspired writings that recorded the things Jesus said and did have been preserved down to our day. Unlike fanciful legends, the Gospel writings reflect painstaking accuracy and attention to detail. For example, they abound with names of real places, many of which can be visited today. They tell about real people, whose existence has been corroborated by secular historians.
While the Gospel credited to Matthew does not name him as the writer, the overwhelming testimony of early church historians stamps him as such. Perhaps no ancient book has its writer more clearly and unanimously established than the book of Matthew. From as far back as Papias of Hierapolis (early second century C.E.) onward, we have a line of early witnesses to the fact that Matthew wrote this Gospel and that it is an authentic part of the Word of God. McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia states: “Passages from Matthew are quoted by Justin Martyr, by the author of the letter to Diognetus (see in Otto’s Justin Martyr, vol. ii), by Hegesippus, Irenæus, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement, Tertullian, and Origen. It is not merely from the matter, but the manner of the quotations, from the calm appeal as to a settled authority, from the absence of all hints of doubt, that we regard it as proved that the book we possess had not been the subject of any sudden change.” The fact that Matthew was an apostle and, as such, had God’s spirit upon him assures that what he wrote would be a faithful record. Matthew wrote his account in Palestine. The exact year is not known, but subscriptions at the end of some manuscripts say that it was 41 C.E.( that's just 8 years after the last of the events recorded occurred). There is evidence to indicate that Matthew originally wrote his Gospel in the popular Hebrew of the time and later translated it into Greek. In his work De viris inlustribus (Concerning Illustrious Men), chapter III, Jerome says: “Matthew, who is also Levi, and who from a publican came to be an apostle, first of all composed a Gospel of Christ in Judaea in the Hebrew language and characters for the benefit of those of the circumcision who had believed.” Jerome adds that the Hebrew text of this Gospel was preserved in his day (fourth and fifth centuries C.E.) in the library that Pamphilus had collected in Caesarea. Of course in spite of this there are ones that will continue to doubt just as some did even after Jesus manifested himself to them in human form after his resurrection. (Matthew 28:17) When they saw him, they did obeisance, but some doubted.
