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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...

decisive ‘questioning in their hearts’. On the Jewish scribes in Matthew see on 2:4. Only in Luke’s account do the scribes speak aloud. οὗτος βλασφημεῖ. What more horrible thing could one Jew say about another Jew? Mk. 2:7 reads: ‘Why does he speak thus? He blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?’ Matthew has severely abbreviated and given us only the main point.67 Matthew does not explain why the outraged scribes believe Jesus has blasphemed, that is, spoken evil.68 But it cannot
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