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DESTINATION
The usual assumption is that the evangelist wrote this gospel to meet the needs of believers in his own area. There is a prima facie realism to this assumption if we hold that Matthew was working in centers of large Jewish population, whether in Palestine or Syria (see the section Provenance above), since the book betrays so many Jewish features; it is not easy to imagine that the author had a predominantly Gentile audience in mind. But it is not implausible to suggest that Matthew wrote his gospel with certain kinds of readers in mind, rather than their geographic location.