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Commentary on the Gospel of Luke Norval Geldenhuys,Frederick Fyvie Bruce, The Book of Job John E. Hartley, The Gospel of Mark William L. Lane,
Commentary on the gospel of Luke: the English text with introduction exposition and notes / Norval Geldenhuys; forwarded by F. F. Bruce..
Note: I preached Sunday on The Roots of the Messiah from Luke's genealogy (Luke 3:23-38). In the message I did some teaching relating to comparison and the alleged contradictions between the Matthean and Lukan genealogies, making a case that the difficulty is resolved if we consider that Matthew traces the line of Jesus through his adopted father Joseph while Luke traces his line through his natural mother Mary.
We first observe that the Jews of old were keenly interested in knowing their family’s lineage.
Norval Geldenhuys, in his exposition of Luke in the New International Commentary on the NT, observes, “There is nothing strange in it that the genealogical table of Jesus existed at that time. Under the guiding hand of God the Jews preserved their genealogical tables with remarkable accuracy through all the centuries before the birth of Jesus and also during the first century after His birth….” (p.
151).
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