Luke
Gospel according to Luke
The Gospel according to Luke is the third and longest of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. The fragment sources are some of the oldest manuscripts and is seen as a two volume manuscript with Acts as the second.
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke takes us from the birth and ministry of Jesus to His death and resurrection and finally the ascension of Jesus.
The author seems to have known from the beginning that he would couple this gospel account together with the Acts of the Apostles to make up this two-volume work called Luke–Acts.
Together they account for almost a quarter of the New Testament giving us a picture of the history of first-century Church and Christianity from the ministry of John the Baptist to the end of Acts where "some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not." Some "departed" as the "Holy Ghost" can only be heard and understood, seen and perceived by those people whose hearts have not been "waxed gross", 'ears dulled' and 'eyes closed' that they should 'be converted and healed' both Gentiles and Jews. Acts 28:24-30.
No Gospel stood alone but were read heard and scene by the living witnesses of repentant Christian people who turned away from the covetous practice and idolatry so common in the temples of Paganism.
Luke very much follows Mark with some additions and nuance as it followed His ministry, sermons, suffering, death, and resurrection.
While it is clearly dependent upon what is called the Q gospels with some unique information.
Like other authors the original text was anonymous but eventually attributed to Luke who was a companion of Paul despite what some hold up as contradictions assumed to be observed in his Epistles and in Luke's account of Acts.
Another factor may be the result of the influence of an apostate form of Christianity that brought in Damnable heresies skewing both gospels and epistles with the false or incomplete doctrines of men.
Historical style
Luke–Acts is said to be "a religio-political history" of the Jesus as the founder of His church but also the acts, deeds and words of his appointed successors.
The book is a "narrative" (diegesis), at some times a critique of previous gospels that did not share all the words of Jesus and the Apostles. The author seems to have used a more classical historical style like the historian Josephus.
Historical problems
Some will tell you that there is, “The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar Augustus, and there is no mention anywhere in any of them of an empire-wide census for which everyone had to register by returning to their ancestral home. And how could such a thing even be imagined?"― Bart D. Ehrman,[1]
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them[2]
The apparent contradictions have been attributed to many factors like the length of time they spent together, the time between the events and their recording of them and some revision that may have taken place.
We discuss the census and what was really going on at that point in history in our study of Luke.
Composition
This gospel shares a version of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.
Again Luke is included together with the Acts of the Apostles, as a two-volume work which some scholars call Luke–Acts with a common author who is often said to be Luke the evangelist.
Early Christianity into three stages, with the gospel making up the first two of these – the life of Jesus the messiah or Christ from his birth to the beginning of his mission in the meeting with John the Baptist, followed by his ministry with events and Sermons.
Chapter by Chapter
Gospel of Luke | Luke 1 | Luke 2 | Luke 3 | Luke 4 | Luke 5 | Luke 6 | Luke 7 | Luke 8 | Luke 9 | Luke 10 | Luke 11 | Luke 12 | Luke 13 | Luke 14 | Luke 15 | Luke 16 | Luke 17 | Luke 18 | Luke 19 | Luke 20 | Luke 21 | Luke 22 | Luke 23 | Luke 24 |
Bible |
Bible Index |
Bible References |
Biblical bunch |
Sophistry |
Modern Christians |
Whosoever believeth |
Religion |
Bible_terms |
Early non Bible authors
Athenagoras of Athens | Methodius of Olympus | Theophilus or Ignatius of Antioch
Hippolytus of Rome | Justin the Martyr | Jerome | Augustine of Hippo |
Epistle of Mathetes | Gospel of James | The Gospel of Thomas |
Philo Judaeus or Philo of Alexandria and The Allegories of the Sacred Laws
Polybius | Plutarch | Seneca | Tacitus | Suetonius |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Celsus | Diotrephes |
People in the Bible
Paul the Apostle |
Melchizedek |
Moses |
Cain |
Caesar |
Herod |
Jesus |
John the Baptist |
Matthew |
Mark |
Luke |
John |
Nimrod |
Abraham |
Essenes |
Pharisees |
Sadducees |
Zealots |
Julius Caesar | Augustus Caesar | Tiberius | Nero |
Historical People
Buddha |
Constantine |
Eusebius |
Ambrose |
Augustine of Canterbury |
Lady Godiva |
Vespian |
Diocletian |
Manichaeism |
John Wycliffe |
- ↑ Bart D. Ehrman believes, “The Bible is filled with discrepancies, many of them irreconcilable contradictions. Moses did not write the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did not write the Gospels. There are other books that did not make it into the Bible that at one time or another were considered canonical—other Gospels, for example, allegedly written by Jesus’ followers Peter, Thomas, and Mary. The Exodus probably did not happen as described in the Old Testament. The conquest of the Promised Land is probably based on legend. The Gospels are at odds on numerous points and contain nonhistorical material. It is hard to know whether Moses ever existed and what, exactly, the historical Jesus taught. The historical narratives of the Old Testament are filled with legendary fabrications and the book of Acts in the New Testament contains historically unreliable information about the life and teachings of Paul. Many of the books of the New Testament are pseudonymous—written not by the apostles but by later writers claiming to be apostles. The list goes on.”
- ↑ Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers.
Ehrman gives reasons for deconversion from Christianity to agnosticism or atheism. Bart talks to a Megan about why he deconverted. He never truly understood the Bible from the beginning to end because of the influence of the apostate church and still does not. Certainly, he does have a trouble with the Doctrines of men.