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Teaching Matthew: Unlocking the Gospel of Matthew for the Expositor is unavailable, but you can change that!

Matthew’s Gospel is a substantial book to consider teaching through as a whole. With large teaching excurses and expansive theological reflection seeming to predominate over the action of the story, it may seem daunting to the preacher, compared to the relative brevity and flowing action of Mark. But precisely because there are such rich seams of theology, and so much teaching from...

True King, true Israel Not surprisingly then, in chapter 4, we find Jesus, as the true representative of Israel, facing the same temptations which Israel as a nation had faced in the wilderness, but coming through victoriously, where they had failed. In the temptation narrative, we see him being the true Israel, the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophecy that the people living in darkness will see a great light. Where Israel had failed to be the light to the nations which she was called to be, the king,
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