Daniel Patte offers a unique commentary that systematically examines the faith Matthew expresses and how the various features of each passage help to convey this faith and build reader expectation as the narrative unfolds. This commentary on Matthew's Gospel views each literary unit in both its narrowest and broadest contexts. Specific convictions of Matthew in a given passage take on new meaning when viewed in connection with the major themes already developed or that will be developed in the presentation of Jesus' story and teaching. In each main section of Matthew, themes, subthemes, and subsections are explained. The convictions of each passage are identified through various kinds of narrative opposition-what Matthew means to say and what he does not mean to say. Overall, the pieces of Matthew's sometimes puzzling Gospel are explicated with a view to discerning the unity and the richness of Matthew's faith.