180 Wim J.C. Weren e.g. 11,2). The caption in 16,21 anticipates events that are not extensively elaborated until the passion narrative and hardly covers the content of 16,21–25,46. (2) The substantive correspondence between the caption of 4,17 and the summaries in part II (4,23-25; 9,35; 11,1b) is only relative. The summaries regularly have didavskein and khruvssein; however, 4,17 has khruvssein and levgein. Furthermore, the summaries also mention Jesus’ acts, especially his healings (qerapeuvw). Even more importantly, these summaries do not occur after 11,1b whereas part II does not end until 16,20. To a lesser degree, this same objection applies to the relation between the caption in 16,21 and the passion predictions in 17,22-23 and 20,17-19. If, following Slater, 26,2 is also added to this series, the passion predictions are more or less evenly spread over part III. (3) Kingsbury describes 4,17–16,20 as “the ministry of Jesus to Israel and Israel’s repudiation of Jesus”. It bears witness to little feeling for nuance that Kingsbury lumps together the Jewish leaders and the people under the all-encompassing term “Israel” and that he speaks of a negative reaction of the entire Jewish people to Jesus’ words and deeds. 3. The Macrostructure of Matthew’s Gospel: A New Solution In this section, I will present a new proposal concerning the macrostructure of the Gospel according to Matthew, with the starting point that this gospel is a narrative text, a story about Jesus. The narrator offers his main character ample opportunity to speak. These sections are to be considered as character’s text and are as such embedded in the narrator’s text. The same goes for the five discourses held by Jesus that the narrator, judging by his concluding formula, presents as textual units. We must do justice to these units when answering the question which sub-structures can be recognised in the book. Nonetheless, these do not themselves present us with the key to the determination of the macrostructure. In this section, I will take a closer look at a number of textual phenomena that have a structuring function. I will begin by discussing a characteristic that the Gospel according to Matthew has in common with every other narrative text: the events related take place in a certain temporal and spatial setting (a and b). Assuming the distinction between “kernels” and “satellites”, I will step by step develop a new solution (c-g).