Matthew 11

<p>Continue your study of Matthew with the second volume of Dr. Gibb's Concordia Commentary on Matthew</p><p>Therefore go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19) is the evangelistic call within Matthew and Dr. Jeffrey Gibbs maintains that the text of Matthew was intended to serve all nations and the whole church rather than the some singular congregation as is argued by many contemporary scholars. Still Gibbs interprets the text in light of the original cultural and religious context in which Matthew wrote as well as the audience for whom he wrote. He employs a narrative approach that carefully attends to the literary structure of Matthew's unfolding message in his Gospel. Themes that receive particular emphasis include Jesus' mission to save his people from their sins; the reign of God in Jesus; the Son of God's vicarious role as the substitute for Israel and for us; Jesus' fulfillment of the OT; Jesus' ministry of mighty word (preaching calling disciples teaching) and mighty deed (healing the sick exorcizing and raising the dead); how God's grace in Jesus now comes to us through Word and Sacrament; and eschatology-that the end times have begun already with Jesus' ministry and the Christian lives with joyful hope in the promises yet to be fulfilled on the Last Day.</p><p>Features</p><ul><li>A conviction that the Gospels can and should be treated as independent inspired sources each to be interpreted in their own terms and in their own ways.</li><li>A narrative approach and analysis of the life of Christ in the Gospel</li><li>An extensive outline of how when and where Matthew wrote his Gospel</li></ul><p>Essays</p><ul><li>Violence Against the Reign of God: The Murder of John the Baptist</li><li>The Identity of Christ in Matthew's Gospel</li><li>Israel's Rejection in Matthew's Gospel</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Series</strong></p><p>The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight clarity and faithfulness to the divine intent of the Biblical text.</p><p>The series will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament with an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Aramaic or Greek of each text. The foremost interpretive lens centers on the unified proclamation of the person and work of Christ across every Scriptural book.</p><p>The Commentary fully affirms the divine inspiration inerrancy and authority of Scripture; Each passage bears witness to the confession that God has reconciled the world to Himself through the incarnation ministry death resurrection and ascension of Christ His Son.</p><p>Authors expose the rich treasury of language imagery and thematic content of the Scripture while supplementing their work with additional research in archaeology history and extrabiblical literature. Throughout God's Word emanates from authors careful attention and inculcates the ongoing life of the Church in Word Sacrament and daily confession.</p><p><br></p>