Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Eerdmans and especially Michael Thomson for welcoming this manuscript; to Jenny Hoffman and others for their editorial work; also to Diane Chen, my esteemed colleague in New Testament at Palmer Seminary, for her helpful feedback on it. I am also grateful to Richard Bauckham, Craig Evans, and others whose comments prompted me to undertake this book. I also gratefully acknowledge permission from Hendrickson Publishers to reuse relevant material from my John and (forthcoming) Acts commentaries (especially, though not exclusively, in chs. 6-8, 10). Many other parts of this volume build on material found in my Matthew commentary for Eerdmans.