This volume on Matthew and Mark offers unparalleled excellence in contemporary critical scholarship. The full texts and critical notes of the NIV and NRSV are presented in parallel columns for quick reference followed by exegetical commentary informed by linguistic, text-critical, historical-critical, literary, social-scientific, and theological methods. Six General Articles and booklength, detailed interpretations of Matthew and Mark by M. Eugene Boring (Matthew) and Pheme Perkins (Mark).