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Leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough provides a pithy and readable commentary covering all the Sunday readings for years A, B, and C. Wansbrough provides incisive commentary informed by his many years of teaching Scripture as a scholar and Benedictine monk of Ampleforth Abbey, and member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. For each Sunday a short commentary on the three readings...

his glory extending even to Moses and Elijah. These two personalities are here privileged to speak to Jesus because each had a vision of God on the Holy Mountain, Sinai or Horeb respectively (in the Old Testament, these are two names for the same mountain). The Voice from heaven at the baptism had been addressed to Jesus himself (in Mark and Luke); now the Voice is a public declaration of Jesus’ Sonship, and authorizes him to all as the Chosen Teacher. Luke centres the scene especially clearly on
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