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Gospel according to Luke I–IX: Introduction, Translation and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this first of two volumes on the Gospel according to Luke, Joseph A. Fitzmyer provides an exhaustive introduction, a definitive new translation, and extensive notes and commentary on Luke’s Gospel. Fitzmyer brings to the task his mastery of ancient and modern languages, his encyclopedic knowledge of the sources, and his intimate acquaintance with the questions and issues occasioned by the...

is related to the larger context of chap. 9, in providing not only another answer to Herod’s crucial question (9:9), but also an important phase in the training of the Galilean witnesses that is prominent in this chapter. As an explicit answer to Herod’s question, heaven speaks forth through the voice from the cloud: “This is my Son, my Chosen One!” To the christological answers already given in the chapter, two others are thus added; and another is implicit in the withdrawal of Moses and Elijah,
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