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Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

David Garland’s commentary provides thorough guidance through Matthew’s story of Jesus, revealing the movement of the story’s plot while highlighting Matthew’s theology. The gospel writer’s intent, besides telling the story of Jesus, is to bolster faith, convince and refute, explain present historical circumstances, to exhort, and to arm for mission. This commentary concentrates on Jesus as the...

were the “right” marriage partner. The story behind the change in the pattern in 1:16, however, cannot be filled in from Scripture. It is only from what the Evangelist tells us in 1:18–25 that we learn that Mary became pregnant from the Holy Spirit prior to the consummation of her marriage to Joseph. Joseph decides on his own that Mary cannot be the “right” woman for a righteous man to marry (1:19). But God’s purpose overrides. As the four women in the genealogy are vehicles of God’s messianic plan
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