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they put more stuff in there that shows
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they were writing after the time of Mark,
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and using Mark as a source.
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That's all in that chapter,
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but then there's all these long woes to the scribes and Pharisees.
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Woe to the blah, blah, blah; woe to you who do this,
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there's a whole section of that speech.
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So five different speeches that some scholars have even
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suggested may be designed to imitate the five books of the Pentateuch.
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As I said, the ending of Matthew is universalizing.
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It takes this Israelite vision that you've seen all the way through the book
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and then universalizes it to the whole world.