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Jacob Jervell, Luke and the People of God. A collection of essays on Luke-Acts by an NT scholar who was also a Lutheran pastor. He always takes care to explain his meaning in plain language that can be easily understood by a non-academic general reader like me. Even though I don’t agree with...

“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” (1 Cor 10:16, KJV). “Breaking bread” is mentioned twenty-seven times in the NT, in contexts where the sacramental nature of the action...

Two different Hebrew calendars in use at the same time — Has anyone here at Christian Chat ever heard of this theory? On the discrepancy between the Synoptics and John on the date of the Crucifixion, some adherents to a strict form of Biblical inerrancy claim that two different calendars were in...

The Nazareth synagogue episode is reported in all three Synoptics, only briefly in Mark and Matthew but at considerably greater length in Luke. Among other incidents, Luke is the only one who has recorded the threat to kill Jesus by throwing him over the edge of a cliff (link below). First, in...