the exalted Lord sends prophets, sages and scribes to Israel; 10:41: on the reception of prophets in the community; cf. also 5:12; 23:37) and to false prophets (7:15–23; 24:10–12) suggest strongly that such prophets were known in Matthew’s community and that moreover these were wandering prophets of the kind referred to in Q. It is true that, as Luz acknowledges, nearly all these references are taken from Q; but their number and distribution makes it reasonable to suppose that the topic was of concern