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Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1–9:50 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first of a three-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke, covering the birth narratives through the Galilean ministry of Jesus. The introduction covers the text-critical questions of the Gospel, as well as its canonization, language, structure, origin, and theological profile. The author also treats how the Gospel was used in later generations: writers from the early church, the...

Analysis Synoptic Comparison The transfiguration appears in Luke in the same sequence of pericopes as in Mark and Matthew. Its proximity to Peter’s confession (9:18–22*) is especially important. As in 9:23–27*, Luke uses Mark as his source, but shows some independence (e.g., vv. 31–33*), displaying at the same time many small similarities to Matthew.1 Luke may have known a special source in addition to Mark,2 or he may have known a pre-Markan text that diverges from the present form of
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