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The goal of the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series is to clearly convey every thought contained in the Bible by presenting the message of each passage as well as an overview of other issues surrounding the text in an accessible but high-level discussion of scriptural interpretation. The nearly 40 scholars, many of whom participated in the creation of the New Living Translation, are...

The basic point of 5:17–20 is that if Jesus has come not to destroy but to fulfill the law (5:17), then the entire law is eternally valid (5:18), and the disciples must obey him as its ultimate interpreter and teach his interpretations of it (5:19) in order to have a moral uprightness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees and that is fitting for the Kingdom (5:20). Jesus and the Law: Continuity and Discontinuity. What does it mean when Jesus affirms that he has come to fulfill the law and
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