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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...

broad daylight and in full public view, and then experiences a remarkable (and miraculous) catch of fish. The catch is so large that it now introduces a new element of danger into Simon’s reality. These never-fully-dried nets may not be equal to the weight of this catch. What if they break? That would cause the business to miss this catch plus many missed nights of fishing resulting in lost income until the nets could be repaired or replaced. For a critical moment, Simon’s fear seems justified
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