with its putative sources (in this case Mark and Q). But the theme of discipleship in Matthew’s Gospel has been rather fully studied from this perspective already (e.g., Barth, Deutsch, Luz, Wilkins). Scholarly study, of late, has been enriched and enlivened by a different approach, one that takes seriously the narrative character of the Gospels and sets out to examine them as stories. In what follows, therefore, our intention will be to make use of the insights of narrative criticism in order to