interest in Jewish mission (10:5–6; 15:24), the inclusive sense of the phrase at 24:9 and 14 (cf. 25:32), and the use of the singular form at 21:43 to refer to a fruitful people made up of both Jew and gentile. It is precisely after Jesus’s resurrection that the Matthean mission moves from particularistic (i.e., solely to Israel) to extending to all peoples.81 This movement from Israel’s temporal priority to gentile inclusion into Israel’s redemption fits the OT prophetic vision of two horizons of
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