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Luke’s interest in the Holy Spirit is well-known, so when instead of having Jesus say, “If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God…” as Matthew has it, he writes, “If I by the finger of God…” Luke poses a question that has puzzled many commentators since. Woods argues that in fact the phrase “finger of God” holds the key to understanding the role of the Spirit in Luke-Acts. Taking into account the...

The argument and ideas of a passage like Romans 9–11 would first of all serve to warn the Jews about the consequences of rejecting the Messiah in terms of their own present rejection,9 and future hope.10 But it would also include the question of the Gentiles’ inclusion in the sovereign grace of God as well. This would begin to involve Luke’s Beelzebub pericope (Lk. 11:14–26) at both levels. Especially would this be so where scholars have noticed the relationship between the Jonah/queen of the south
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