I’ve spent a number of years at the post-graduate level analyzing Luke’s two-volume Luke-Acts. I’ve observed that, among many other astonishing techniques, Luke consistently pairs two people together in order for us to compare. He creates dual portraits for us to gain insight into how two different people respond to God’s revelation, to hardship, or to temptation. And knowing the biases against women in the first century, what is surprising is that the dual portrait consists of a man and a woman.

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