From a team of more than 50 international scholars comes the Word Biblical Commentary Series.

Harvesting the important historical, textual, literary and archaeological discoveries from a generation of scholarship, the Word Biblical Commentary Series serves the needs of professional scholars and teachers, students of the Bible and of theology, working ministers and anyone who wants a theological understanding of Scripture that is grounded in the best of today's biblical scholarship.

In his first two volumes of this commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Dr. John Nolland offered an extensive introduction to the literature of Luke, expertly tracing Jesus' general ministry throughout Palestine, and then focusing on Jesus' purpose as the suffering Servant and his inevitable fate in Jerusalem. Now the author concludes his exhaustive study of the third Gospel, delineating for us both the method and content of Luke's theological reflections on our Lord's death, resurrection, and ascension.

Few biblical studies have offered the reader a more complete bibliography of past and contemporary works on a focused subject than the one Dr. Nolland includes in this volume. Drawing from his extraordinarily broad grasp of studies on Luke's writings, Dr Nolland offers a rich work filled with technical analysis and practical observations. In this commentary, Dr. Nolland

* synthesizes insights scattered throughout the literature on the field;
* evaluates competing interpretaions of specific items in the Gospel account in the light of the whole scope of Luke's work;
* provides a fresh translation of each section of the Gospel text;
* reviews the journal articles and academic monographs on Luke's Gospel, materials often unseen by pastors and serious lay students of the Scriptures.

Dr. Nolland sees the Gospel of Luke as 'an exercise in communication, deliberately undertaken by the Gospel writer' who had a clear view of the needs of his audience. Dr. Nolland likewise has kept his audience clearly in view, he interacts irenically with his colleagues and challenges pastors everywhere to undertake serious textual study.