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This highly original commentary on the Gospel of Luke is unique for the way it combines concerns with first-century culture in the Roman world with understanding the text of Luke as a wholistic, historical narrative. Focusing primarily on how each episode functions within Luke’s narrative development, Joel B. Green provides countless fresh perspectives on and new insights into the Third Gospel....

primary foci of Jesus’ missionary activity—proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing those who are sick and demonized.17 Within the narrative as a whole, then, this scene (and its parallel in 10:1–11) has a crucial role to play. The narrative need driving the Lukan story forward is God’s own purpose to bring salvation in all of its fullness to all persons. Early on in the narrative, Jesus was presented as the one through whom redemption would come. Yet, as early as 5:1–11, with the calling
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