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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...

afflicted by sin and afflicts those comfortable with sin.” The preaching of the kingdom message will be attended with God’s blessing in bringing people to faith. God will bring his people to himself through gospel proclamation. (See Kagarise 2001.) 13:18–22 Here the disciples obtain more understanding of the kingdom, as Jesus promised in 13:11–12. Jesus begins his explanation of the parable of the sower by telling them to “hear” it (cf. Mark
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