Matthew

This highly insightful and useful commentary comes from a skillful and multicompetent scholar. . . [and] properly highlights relevant issues of honor, shame, kinship, colonial contexts, and so forth and provides insights on Matthew’s Gospel from which readers in many cultures, including Western ones, will learn much. All this in a work that is well-laid out and very understandably written!

Craig S. Keener, PhD
F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies,
Asbury Theological Seminary

This commentary is engagingly written, easy to read, and hard to put down. Lay readers, seminarians, preachers, and scholars will all find it informative and valuable. I highly recommend it.

Rev. John Y. H. Yieh, PhD
The Molly Laird Downs Chair, Professor of New Testament,
Virginia Theological Seminary

Samson Uytanlet and Kiem-Kwok Kwa admirably assist readers of the Gospel of Matthew with their faithful attention to the Gospel narrative and keen awareness of similarities between the first-century New Testament world and twenty-first century Asia. This splendid study serves well the aims of the Asia Bible Commentary.

Joel B. Green, PhD
Provost, Dean of the School of Theology,
Professor of New Testament Interpretation,
Fuller Theological Seminary

Samson Uytanlet has gifted us with a different kind of commentary on Matthew. Emphasizing a cyclical relation among the commentator’s tasks of “observation, interpretation, and application,” Uytanlet’s commentary not only acknowledges that readers come to Matthew with their present contexts but also addresses how Matthew may speak to the particularities of today’s Asia. is contextual-specific commentary will be a great resource to those who are interested in Matthew and committed to Asia.

Tat-siong Benny Liew, PhD
Professor, Religious Studies Department,
College of the Holy Cross

1. Commentary
1. Series Preface
2. Acknowledgements
3. List of Abbreviations
4. Introduction
5. Commentary on Matthew
6. Recommended Works
2. Topics
1. Family Matters
2. Whose Golden Rule Has More Karats? Confucius’ or Jesus’?
3. Following Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
4. Filial Piety and Some Asian Burial Practices
5. The “Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” and Cessationism
6. Use of Parables and Confrontations in a Shame-Based Culture
7. The “Expansion” of God’s Kingdom: Does God’s Kingdom Really Need to Expand?
8. Living Out the Kingdom
9. Filial Respect and the Qorban
10. Welcoming People in the Church
11. Selling One’s Possession to Receive Eternal Life: A Theological Reflection on Evangelism
12. Confrontation in Hierarchical and Shame-Based Cultures
13. Church and Caesar
14. Evangelism as a Means to Hasten Christ’s Return
15. The Suffering of Jesus
16. Resurrection, Authority, and Mission