Name: Luke
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

At the heart of Luke's Gospel is the truth that God sent his Son to 'seek and to save what was lost'. More than any of the other Gospel writers, Luke shows us the Lord dealing with individual people and how their lives were changed as a result of their personal encounter with him. These people came from all ranks of society: the rugged fisherman, the poor widow, the wealthy tax collector, the ruler of the synagogue, the Roman centurion.

As the only New Testament writer who was not a Jew, Luke consciously writes his account for Gentiles as well as Jews, showing that the message of the Gospel is for all kinds of people in this fallen world.

Title

Luke
Author(s)

Michael Bentley
Series

Welwyn Commentary Series
ISBN

9781783973897
Format

eBook
Publisher

Evangelical Press
Bible Book

Luke
Audience

Church Leaders
Pages

336
Published

01/12/1993

Michael Bentley

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Overall rating

5.0 based on 1 review

My favourite commentary on Luke

This is a commentary not just to be dipped into or referred to, but to be read from cover to cover. Bentley quite simply brings Luke's Gospel to life. He retells the narrative in a fresh style which helped me notice details whose significance I had missed through overfamiliarity. Jewish customs and historical background are explained in a way which helps in understanding why the Lord Jesus spoke and acted as he did. If you want a technical analysis, you will need to go elsewhere - but the author has a great gift for seeing the major points of each unit within a chapter and driving home their significance. Michael Bentley is a man of deep conviction and holds unapologetically to old-fashioned standards. He brings out repeated words and themes in a way which elucidates the key ideas and overall purpose of the Gospel as a whole. This volume is clearly the work of a pastor who has preached through Luke for his own congregation - I would have loved to be among them! Deeply devotional, and practically applied. One observation: there are a few distracting typos (or glitches in OCR scanning?) - perhaps these could be addressed in the next edition.