speaking through a new prophet who called people to repentance and promised someone greater to come. In addition to the implications of this commentary’s outline of Matthew, the gospel has many substructures pointing to a writer of great literary skill. Gooding (p. 234) points out interesting parallels between chapters 1–2 and 3–4, too lengthy to be detailed here (cf. also 13:3–53). 1 Matthew’s temporal note, “In those days,” is vague and reflects a similarly loose expression in the OT (e.g., Gen