| Profit with Delight: the Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles RI Pervo, MC Parsons | 526 | 1987 |
| Rethinking the unity of Luke and Acts MC Parsons Fortress Press, 1993 | 336 | 1993 |
| Acts (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament) MC Parsons Baker Academic, 2008 | 250 | 2008 |
| Body and character in Luke and Acts: The subversion of physiognomy in early Christianity MC Parsons Baylor University Press, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| The departure of Jesus in Luke-Acts: The ascension narratives in context MC Parsons | 172 | 1987 |
| Luke: A handbook on the Greek text MM Culy, MC Parsons, JJ Stigall Baylor University Press, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Luke: storyteller, interpreter, evangelist MC Parsons Hendrickson Publ., 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
| Luke (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament) MC Parsons Baker Academic, 2015 | 85* | 2015 |
| The Bible and disability: A commentary SJ Melcher, MC Parsons, A Yong Baylor University Press, 2017 | 74 | 2017 |
| Acts: A handbook on the Greek text MM Culy, MC Parsons Baylor University Press, 2003 | 70 | 2003 |
| Acts: A Handbook on the Greek Text MC Parsons Baylor University Press, 2003 | 61 | 2003 |
| ‘Short in Stature’: Luke's Physical Description of Zacchaeus MC Parsons New Testament Studies 47 (1), 50-57, 2001 | 56 | 2001 |
| Son and High Priest: A Study in the Christology of Hebrews MC Parsons Evangelical Quarterly 60 (3), 195-216, 1988 | 56 | 1988 |
| A Christological Tendency in P: 75 MC Parsons Journal of Biblical Literature 105 (3), 463-479, 1986 | 55 | 1986 |
| Luke and the Progymnasmata: a preliminary investigation into the Preliminary Exercises MC Parsons Contextualizing Acts, 43-63, 2003 | 47 | 2003 |
| Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament: The Influence of Elementary Greek Composition MC Parsons, MW Martin Baylor University Press, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Reading a Beginning/Beginning a Reading: Tracing Literary Theory on Narrative Openings MC Parsons How gospels begin, 11-11, 1990 | 40 | 1990 |
| Illuminating Luke: the infancy narrative in Italian Renaissance painting HJ Hornik, MC Parsons A&C Black, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Isaiah 53 in Acts 8. A reply to Professor Morna Hooker MC Parsons, WH Bellinger, WR Farmer Jesus and the suffering servant, 104-119, 1998 | 35 | 1998 |
| The place of Jerusalem on the Lukan landscape: An exercise in symbolic cartography MC Parsons, RP Thompson, TE Phillips, JB Tyson Literary studies in Luke-Acts, 155-171, 1998 | 30 | 1998 |
