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Gospel according to Luke I–IX: Introduction, Translation and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this first of two volumes on the Gospel according to Luke, Joseph A. Fitzmyer provides an exhaustive introduction, a definitive new translation, and extensive notes and commentary on Luke’s Gospel. Fitzmyer brings to the task his mastery of ancient and modern languages, his encyclopedic knowledge of the sources, and his intimate acquaintance with the questions and issues occasioned by the...

plain as “the place of meeting with the people.” The verb estē means “he stood, came to stand” and is scarcely intended as an indication of the position/posture of Jesus as he begins his sermon (contrast 4:20). a great crowd of his disciples. This phrase adds significance to the choice of the Twelve recounted in the preceding episode. It and the following phrase are afterthoughts of the evangelist, because they have to be construed with the preceding sg. verb estē, despite the plurality that is now
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