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Renowned New Testament scholar Mikeal Parsons offers a practical commentary on Luke that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts. This commentary proceeds by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the historical, literary, and theological...

disciples “when it was evening” (Mark 14:17 NRSV), Luke reports that the “hour came.” The reference to the “hour” is more than a simple chronological reference but rather suggests, in Johannine-like fashion (cf. John 13:1), “a solemn chiming of the hour heralding the doom-laden events to come” (D. Garland 2011, 853; cf. Luke 22:53). Second, Luke refers to Jesus’s followers as “the apostles” rather than the “Twelve” (Mark 14:17), perhaps echoing the role of Peter and John, whom Jesus sent (apostellō;
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