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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...

Jesus gives a two-part answer to the disciples’ two-part question, albeit the two parts of their question and his answer do not match. The disciples are concerned with the impending destruction of the temple and Jesus’s age-ending coming. Jesus is concerned not so much with the “when?” and the “what?” of these events as he is with the “so what?” Although 24:4–35 speaks to some extent about the when and what, it does so with relative brevity and imprecision. Jesus
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