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Matthew's Gospel is the first document in the New Testament—a suitable location, considering some scholars' opinions (for example, Theodor Zahn and Ernest Renan) that it is the pre-eminent piece of literature in antiquity. What sort of book is it? Who is its author, and why did he write it? What historical, literary, and theological contexts influence it? Matthew's Gospel also tells a story of...

and teaches them, this one will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven’ (Matt. 5:19–20). The law will not and cannot be abolished (5:17–18—including the repeated verb katalyō; 5:17), but it can and will be broken, 19 (including the verb lyō).9 This happens when people disregard or disobey its commands, or supplant them with human traditions
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