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Matthew for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1–15 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Tom Wright’s eye-opening comments on the Gospel and what it might mean for us are combined, passage by passage, with his new translation of the Bible text. This volume discusses Matthew 1–15.

know about planes going through the sound barrier is that you hear a loud explosion. Many of Jesus’ contemporaries would have said that this was a good picture of the effect he had. Jesus wasn’t simply a great teacher, and if we try to describe him like that we will misunderstand him. This passage is the beginning of the famous ‘Sermon on the Mount’, which runs through chapters 5, 6 and 7 of Matthew’s gospel, and sets out, in Matthew’s presentation of it, the main themes of Jesus’ proclamation. People
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