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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...

“the power to take away kingdoms and to bestow them,” Dio Cassius, Roman History 62.5.3)? (b) Jesus’ obedient submission to the will of God when tested after his baptism provides a model for the newly baptized disciple who can also expect trials (see Tertullian, On Baptism 20). Jesus faces down the enemy that torments all of us and who vies with God’s will through lying words that sound religious. He overcomes the temptation to be self-serving and to seek instant gratification (bread with no plowing,
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