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The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, Volume 1: The Gospel according to Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Tannehill shows how the narrative contributes to the impact of Luke’s literary whole. The study further shows that Luke’s use of recurring words, patterns of repetition and contrast, irony, pathos, and many other features of this narrative contribute to the total fabric of Luke’s masterpiece.

Pharisees and teachers of the law21 are present “from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem” (5:17). This is surpassed in 6:17–18, where we hear of “a great multitude of the people from all the Jewish land and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and be healed.” We reach the climax of this development in 7:17: “And this statement about him went out in the whole Jewish country and all the neighboring region.” The fame of Jesus as healer is presupposed
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