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• THE PROLOGUE (1:1–4) 1Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, 3I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account fo...
• God’s glory, normally associated with the temple, is now manifest on a farm! At the birth of his son, God has compromised (in a proleptic way) the socio-religious importance of the temple as the culture center of the world of Israel. Luke thus puts us on notice that the new world coming is of a radically different shape than the former one, that qu...
• 4.5.3.1. Jesus Stills the Storm (8:22–25) 22One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they put out, 23and while they were sailing he fell asleep. A windstorm swept down on the lake, and the boat was filling with water, and they were in danger. 24They went to him and woke...
• “Salvation” thus refers to restoration to the community of God’s people, a reality marked for Zacchaeus by Jesus’ presence in his house. Note the parallel statements—
• This reversal relates not only to Zacchaeus but also to his household (which, with him as householder, would also have suffered the ostracism he had experienced). Anticipated here are the accounts of household conversion in the narrative of Acts (e.g., 10:1–11:18; 16:25–34; 18:1–11).