Saint Luke

C.F. Evans was Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham (1958-1962) and later Professor of the New Testament at King's College, London (1962-1977). He was one of the leading New Testament scholars in the English language of the twentieth century. Michael Wolter is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Bonn in Germany and the author of the most recent and most important current commentary on Luke's Gospel.Robert Morgan is University Lecturer of New Testament Theology and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

"'As I read this commentary, I felt nostalgic,imagining our dear New Testament Professor,Christopher Evans, a slight figure standing before his class at King's College,London in the 1960's.He dazzled us as he read fluently in English directly from the Greek text in a tour de force of simultaneous translation. I had come from an oppressive South Africa where the pedagogy set great store by the right answers learnt almost by rote,authoritarian in the extreme.What an exhilarating breath of fresh air to sit at the feet of one who was properly authoritative as is illustrated by this magisterial commentary on 'Luke' whose republication is a fitting tribute to a great NT scholar celebrating his hundredth birthday.What a superb and lucid guide through a maze of material.'