The

Expositor’s

Bible

Commentary

with the New International Version

Matthew, Mark, Luke

volume 8

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Matthew—D. A. Carson

Mark—Walter W. Wessel

Luke—Walter L. Liefeld

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Frank E. Gæbelein general editor

grand rapids, michigan 49530 usa

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 8

Copyright © 1984 by Zondervan

Requests for information should be addressed to:

Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised)

Main entry under title:

The expositor’s Bible commentary

CONTENTS:

V. 8. Matthew—Mark—Luke

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-10: 0-310-36500-7

1. Bible—Commentaries. I. Gaebelein, Frank Ely, 1899–

BS491.2E96

220.6

76-41334

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are take from the Holy Bible: New international Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

Contributors to Volume 8

Preface

Abbreviations

Transliterations

Matthew

Mark

Luke

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 8

Matthew: D. A. Carson

B.Sc., McGill University; M.Div., Baptist Seminary in Toronto; Ph.D., Cambridge University

Professor of New Testment, Trinity Evagelical Divinity School

Mark: Walter W. Wessel

Th.B., Biola College; M.A., University of California, LA; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Professor of New Testament and Greek, Bethel Theological Seminary, West Campus

Luke: Walter L. Liefeld

Th.B., Shelton College; A.M., Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary

Professor of New Testament. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

By Way of Explanation

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary allots considerably more space to the first commentary in this volume than to the other two. Most of the critical problems that cluster around the Synoptics relate to the Gospel of Matthew; therefore this Gospel is the logical place for comprehensive interaction with the current views and trends.

In no sense does the length of the first commentary reflect on the other two commentaries. The writers of these works have accomplished their tasks within the strict parameters of the word limitation set for them.

Frank E. Gaebelein
General Editor

Preface

The title of this work defines its purpose. Written primarily by expositors for expositors, it aims to provide preachers, teachers, and students of the Bible with a new and comprehensive commentary on the books of the Old and New Testaments. Its stance is that of a scholarly evangelicalism committed to the divine inspiration, complete trustworthiness, and full authority of the Bible. Its seventy-eight contributors come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, ...