About a third of the way through the gospel attributed to Matthew, we are introduced to the twelve apostles and Jesus’ first charges to them as those called to be laborers for God’s harvest. Chapters 11 and 12 sound a lot like a recapitulation of the earlier Sermon on the Mount a few chapters ago. […]
Month: June 2026
On the Author and Audience Relationship
We truly don’t know a lot about the gospel writers. Scholars have debated who wrote what. In the case of the gospel book attributed to Matthew (which I am focusing on during this current series of writing), we don’t really know if the tax collector mentioned in the text (Matthew 9:9-13) was the author. Perhaps […]
Relevant Reformation 