Assumptions about me:

• I am an Anglican priest, currently living in Wellington New Zealand.
• I am a scholar who counts John Donahue as a teacher and a friend. I treasure his classes on Mark and on the Parables that I was a part of while a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University. Much of this carries over into Matthew.
• I am a teacher. This blog is an adjunct to weekly teaching and preaching to the congregation of St Peters on Willis in Wellington. It also makes good on promises made to groups of priests in the Waiapu Diocese.
• I have been “worrying away” at the New Testament for some thirty mumble years.. Last year I did a blog on Mark and next year I will do one on the Fourth Gospel.