This clear, readable running commentary on Matthew-with full text from the Good News Bible explains this Gospel by placing it within its cultural context and provides for readers the drama, anticipation, beauty, and wonderment of the events of Christ's life, passion, and resurrection. Fully up-to-date, this commentary on Matthew draws upon the best traditional and contemporary scholarship in an informed, balanced way. Dr. Mounce points out the five major "teaching blocks" that comprise this Gospel, drawing attention to specific words and phrases that keynote the central points of the text. He shows how the Gospel was written to give the growing early church a compendium of Jesus' sayings placed within a chronological telling of his story, while demonstrating how Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Matthew stresses what is significant to help lay student and pastor reach fuller understanding of the life and ministry of Jesus as presented by this articulate disciple. The result is a dependable resource for Sunday school teachers, for ministers preparing sermons, and for individual or group study.