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Lent 3
Preaching
Preaching Luke's Gospel
A Narrative Approach
This week's text, with its appropriate Lenten theme of repen-tance, is assigned for the Lenten season quite out of context. Luke 13 lies in the middle of Luke's Travel Narrative (Luke 9:51„19:27; see discussion in Chapter 19). The immediate context is one of warnings by Jesus of the impending judgment that is to come. Robert Tannehill puts it this way: