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Matthew: Introduction, Translation, and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

minor at the time, but we have seen how its implications exploded; this is the case again and again in the Bible. It is important to beware of using the stick of “distortion” in order to beat the evangelists when no other evidence is available. Occasionally, endings—and even beginnings—appear to have been lost, elided, or misplaced from many of the gospel stories. For example, Mark 1:29–31 has no apparent ending, and vs. 32 has been added to fit, while Mark 3:1–6 ends with an account of Jesus’ enemies
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