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Matthew 8–20: A Commentary on Matthew 8–20 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the second of a three-volume commentary on the gospel of Matthew from Europe’s leading Matthew scholar. Luz’s commentary is especially noteworthy, not only for his incisive exegesis, but also his keen eye for the importance of the history of interpretations and his attention to the relevance of the New Testament for contemporary Christian ethics. This electronic version features 646...

Matthew’s parenesis makes it possible for “little ones”—church members who have gone astray—to experience the searching love of God in a concrete way in the church. It also keeps the members of the church who are at work seeking the lost “little ones” from doing so with the secret arrogance of “big ones,” who themselves make no mistakes and who are the infallible guardians of the truth. In a church that is fundamentally a corpus permixtum there can only be “little ones” and persons who are forever
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