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“It is a special pleasure to introduce R. T. (Dick) France’s commentary to the pastoral and scholarly community, who should find it a truly exceptional—and helpful—volume.” So says Gordon Fee in his preface to this work. France’s masterful commentary on Matthew focuses on exegesis of Matthew’s text as it stands rather than on the prehistory of the material or details of Synoptic comparison. The...

initial request of the Jewish authorities (vv. 63–64) and in their cover-up story after the event (28:13–15). Justin, Dial. 108, tells us that this charge was still being actively propagated in the middle of the second century;7 it was an obvious counter-move to Christian claims of Jesus’ resurrection. It is hardly likely that Christians would have invented such a convenient weapon for their critics if the story were not already in circulation.8 62 “The Preparation” means what we call Friday, so
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