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The first volume of The Lutheran Commentary gives the first half of the Gospel of Matthew, written in the conservative approach taken by Charles F. Schaeffer. Charles Schaeffer continues his conservative, traditional exegesis of Matthew in the second volume of The Lutheran Commentary.

1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. A. For. This introductory word indicates that the parable which immediately succeeds, is very intimately connected with the conversation recorded at the close of the foregoing chapter, and should not have been separated from that conversation by those who divided the text into chapters and verses. The previous words of the Lord (see above, 19:30,
Volume 2, Pages 98–99