The Gospel of Matthew (Biblia.com)

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“It is a special pleasure to introduce R. T. (Dick) France’s commentary to the pastoral and scholarly community, who should find it a truly exceptional—and helpful—volume.” So says Gordon Fee in his preface to this work. France’s masterful commentary on Matthew focuses on exegesis of Matthew’s text as it stands rather than on the prehistory of the material or details of Synoptic comparison. The...

The commission is of course to go far beyond Israel, but that does not require that Israel be excluded.30 If the Jewish writer Matthew had intended to say that to his probably largely Jewish Christian readers he would surely have made it explicit. “The Gentile mission extends the Jewish mission—not replaces it; Jesus nowhere revokes the mission to Israel (10:6), but merely adds a new mission revoking a previous prohibition (10:5).”31 The commission is expressed not in terms of the means, to proclaim

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