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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

look like on earth. To follow Jesus, then, was to fulfill the hope of Israel to see the righteousness of God. But why him and not someone else? Wouldn’t the Pharisees—standard-bearers of righteousness—have just as much claim to direct Israel in the way they should go? Well, according to Jesus they know what is right; they just don’t do it (23:3). Jesus, on the other hand, practices what he preaches because he is the embodiment of Israel, the anointed one, the righteousness of God. Therefore, the
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