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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...

οὐχ ἔχομεν ὦδε εἰ μὴ πέντε ἄρτους καὶ δύο ἰχθύας/οὐκ εἰσὶν ἡμῖν πλεῖον ἢ πέντε ἄρτοι καὶ ἰχθύες δύο (14:17 = Lk 19:15). The omission of Mk 6:37d–38d (see above) requires that the narrative resume with a statement about inability, and given the mention of five loaves and two fish in Mk 6:38, the agreement—far from perfect—is not surprising. τὸ περισσεῦσαν (14:20 = Lk 9:17). The Markan parallel is admittedly clumsy, and both Matthew and Luke have corrected in the light
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