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Matthew is the most familiar of the gospels, best known for its parables, miracle narratives, and the long Sermon on the Mount. Recognized by the early Church as the most fitting introduction to the New Testament, its special concern is to announce Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Hence, its emphasis on the Law, on ethics based on the traditional theology of the Covenant, and on the...

to see in both Matthew and Luke the newly baptized Jesus facing temptation as an individual. The first test would be to see if he would identify his mission with what nowadays would be called “social reform,” working as a popular leader for the eradication of hunger and poverty. The reality of such a temptation is obvious enough, and the identification of the Kingdom with social programs is well detailed in one chapter of Norman Perrin’s The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (London: SCM, 1963),
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