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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...

The path to knowledge remains fraught with obstacles and pitfalls—and just about pushes Jesus over the cliff! (4:29–30). Jesus’s inaugural sermon proceeds through a three-stage text-and-commentary sequence based on two prophetic passages and one popular proverb. Audience response modulates from initially ambivalent to ultimately violent. Jesus reads a blended text from Isa 61:1–2 and 58:6 announcing the Spirit-anointed vocation of
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