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This engaging commentary, like each in the series, relates Scripture to life, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively in teaching, preaching, evangelization, and other forms of ministry. The Gospel of Matthew is an ideal resource for those preaching or teaching on the Sunday Gospel readings from...

choice. But as we read the evidence, the apostle Matthew is as suitable as any potential candidate for the authorship of the Gospel.2 Christian scholarship has historically maintained that Matthew’s Gospel was written for a Palestinian Christian audience.3 The Jewish outlook of the book seemed to point in this direction, as did an ancient tradition that Matthew had originally written his Gospel in a Semitic language, either Hebrew or Aramaic.4 Since few Gentiles would have
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