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New Testament scholar David Turner offers a substantive yet highly accessible commentary on Matthew. With extensive research and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, Turner leads readers through all aspects of the Gospel of Matthew—sociological, historical, and theological—to help them better understand and explain this key New Testament book. As the first Gospel in the canon, Matthew has...

5:1–2 These verses along with 7:28–8:1 provide the narrative setting for the sermon (cf. Baxter 2004; Keegan 1982). Once again Matthew presents Jesus doing something significant on a mountain (cf. Ito 1994), which probably reflects an intended typological relationship between Jesus and Moses (compare the following verses in Matthew with Exod. 19–20; 34: Matt. 4:8; 14:23; 15:29; 17:1; 24:3; 28:16; see also Allison 1993b: 172–80; Baxter 1999;
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