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The story Luke tells in his gospel, says F. Scott Spencer, is “a compelling, complex narrative confession of faith in God. To what degree anyone joins Luke in that faith journey is up to them, but any responsible interpreter must attend considerately to Luke’s theological roadmap.” In this latest addition to the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary series, Spencer integrates close textual...

absolute and audacious public claim of divine authorization until now. What does he mean that he fulfills the Spirit-inspired hope forecast by Isaiah? Who does he think he is? “Is not this Joseph’s son?” (Luke 4:22). He’s one of us, from no-account Nazareth, like the rest of us. No prophet or deliverer has ever come to this place, much less from it. Of course, Mary and Joseph (and we readers) know that Jesus is not Joseph’s natural son, and while, on the one hand, he is a full-fledged human being,
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