Luke 18:35–24:53 (Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 35c | WBC)

by John Nolland

Publisher:

Word

, 1993

Overview

Explore the rich narrative of Luke’s gospel with leading New Testament scholar John Nolland. Examining the historical context, literary structure, and relationship to other gospels, Nolland provides a detailed reading of Luke that emphasizes the historicity of the book and its theological meaning.

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The directive to buy a sword deserves a measure of separate consideration. Lined up as it is with purse, bag, and sandals, we can eliminate at once any idea that zealot sympathies are coming to expression with the commendation of the sword. The sword is thought of as part of the equipment required for the self-sufficiency of any traveller in the Roman world. Nothing more than protection of one’s person is in view. Similarly there can be no thought that the swords might be used to make a defense of Jesus (as Gillmann, LS 9 [1982] 142–53) or might be for use in an anticipated eschatological armed struggle (as Bartsch, NTS 20 [1973–74] 190–203).” (Page 1076)

“Though there is no reason to think that this man’s desire to see Jesus expresses the same sense of need, the crowd here constitutes the same barrier to access to Jesus that they were initially for the blind man (18:39, cf. v 36). Despite this man’s wealth and official power, he is quite unable to penetrate the crowd: he is clearly a social outsider, whose ‘littleness’ in the eyes of others is more than physical.” (Page 905)

“The exposition of Scripture and the breaking of the bread together create the appropriate conditions for Jesus to break through the Satanic blinding that has kept the disciples from perceiving that it was Jesus who was with them.” (Page 1206)

“The ‘sycamore fig’ is found only here in the NT It is a large evergreen, said to be easy to climb. Apart from the initiative of Jesus in v 5, the man’s strategy would have produced only a quite anonymous contact with Jesus, with no communication (neither Jesus nor the crowd is meant to see him climbing the tree).” (Page 905)

Product Details

• Title: Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 35C: Luke 18:35–24:53
• Author: John Nolland
• Series: Word Biblical Commentary
• Volume: 35C
• Publisher: Word
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2002
• Pages: 462
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Commentaries--Collected works; Bible. N.T. Luke › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9781418503871, 1418503878
• Resource ID: LLS:29.47.7
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-19T00:30:04Z

About John Nolland

John Nolland is academic dean and lecturer in New Testament studies at Trinity College, Bristol, England. He is an ordained minister of the Church of England, and author of The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Gospel of Matthew and coauthor of Built upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew.