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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 3 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...

λαβὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἄρτον καὶ εὐλογήσας ἔκλασεν καὶ δοὺς τοῖς μαθηταῖς εἶπεν. Compare 14:19; 15:36; 1 Cor 11:23 (Ἰησοῦς … ἔλαβεν ἄρτον καὶ εὐχαριστήσας ἔκλασεν καὶ εἶπεν). Because Judas has just spoken Matthew now adds Ἰησοῦς*; Jesus is the paterfamilias and so presides.99 The evangelist has also inserted the first καί (this eliminates asyndeton), replaced ἔδωκεν with the aorist participle (so avoiding parataxis), and changed ‘to them’ (αὐτοῖς) to the more precise
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