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Encounters with Jesus: The Rest of Those Stories restores Jesus’ compelling encounters with people back into their Middle Eastern context. The book contextually restores twelve “familiar” Lukan passages—return to Nazareth, Simon, the leper, the paralytic, calling of Levi, the demoniac, Jairus, the bleeding woman, and more—in an engaging narrative story-telling format. In doing so, paradigm...

certified by the religious “establishment” to be free of this physically and socially debilitating disease. This insight can help shape the way we pray for others. Pray not just for the immediacy of healing in others, but for the total restoration of that person in all aspects of his or her life as well. At this point, it may be helpful for Western evangelicals to reflect on what Jesus did not do after choosing these first disciples. There is no evidence from Luke’s record that
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