The Gospel of Matthew, said James Montgomery Boice, is the first of the Gospels, the longest, the most Jewish, the most evangelistic and in many ways the most compelling. To some people, now as well as then, Matthew is the most important book ever written.

This two-volume expositional commentary integrates rigorous scholarship with clear communication, and Boice does not only explain the text but presses it. The second volume carries the later chapters, through the confrontation in Jerusalem to the cross and the resurrection. Sermons, preached before they were printed.