I loved this specific gemara because of its mysterious whereabouts. (not written outright in bavli- it’s brought down by the hagaos in sanhedrin 43a). I also thought of Mathew, but in regards to others – maybe their names weren’t pronounced the way the tanaim knew them, or we killed them off before they became famous – before the goyim made them their “luminaries ” for their religion. So it can be that these were his talmidim that are unknown to us nowadays or just identified by goyim under different names. Or it could be right names but we don’t know enough of their religion ( I hope) to recognize them.
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