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Having devoted the past ten years of his life to research for this major new work, John Nolland gives us a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew that engages with a notable range of Matthean scholarship and offers fresh interpretations of the dominant Gospel in the history of the church. Without neglecting the Gospel’s sources or historical background, Nolland places his central focus on the...

Jesus is addressing a certain kind of nominalism among … his contemporaries: quite happy to be in a general way within the orbit of the People of God [to preserve the mna intact], but unwilling to make themselves answerable to God’s expectations in any committed sense. Feeling that God was something of an exacting tyrant, they chose to avoid the pressures of fulfilling his expectations rather than to run the risk of doing what they feared might be too little. The parable challenges directly the perverted
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