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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven” ’); also Hermas, Sim. 5:4. Matthew’s wording is based on Mk 4:11: ὑμῖν τὸ μυστήριον δέδοται τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ θεοῦ. Our evangelist has replaced ‘the kingdom of God’ with his favourite ‘the kingdom of Heaven’ and underlined the element of knowing (γνῶναι; cf. the use of συνίημι in 13:13, 19, 23 and 51). Pace McNeile, p. 189, and others, ὅτι is here not recitative but means ‘because’. It answers to the διὰ τί of 13:10. The disciples ask, ‘Why …?’ Jesus
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