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Matthew 1–7: A Commentary on Matthew 1–7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by Ulrich Luz’s expert textual- and historical-critical analysis and theological commentary. Luz brings special attention to the subsequent history of Christian appropriation of Matthew in homiletical and artistic interpretation, and addresses...

does: you accomplish your resolve among people?89 The eschatological interpretation is a special example of the latter possibility: may God effect his will in the eschaton. Here the second clause probably presupposes that God’s will already occurs in heaven and prays that he may prevail on earth as he already does in heaven.90 Verse 33* offers a clue to Matthew’s understanding in that the evangelist adds “righteousness” to “God’s kingdom,” much in the same way he puts the third petition alongside
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