ed." The New Oxford version again chooses the simplest form of the version, translating it as "But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus."
Finally, in looking at the literary context, this story falls within the section of Luke that is termed the "journey narrative." This is the movement toward Jerusalem which takes place in chapters 9-19. Johnson (1986) noted that the journey narrative is not only the story of the movement of Jesus toward suffering and death, but the story of the formation of the distinctive character of the Jesus p
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