The Gospel of Luke

LUKE - There is almost universal agreement that Luke, the "beloved physician" ( kjv@Colossians:4:14 ) who accompanied Paul on his missionary travels, was the author of the third Gospel. Luke wrote to present Jesus as the Universal Savior, the compassionate healer and teacher. His careful historical approach is revealed in the preface, which states that the author has traced "all things from the very first". Unlike Mark, this author includes an account of the Virgin Birth, and unlike Matthew he extensively describes the Perean Ministry (Chapters kjv@Luke:9-18 ).

Author: Dr. Luke

kjv@Luke:1:1-4	Introduction
kjv@Luke:1:5-25	The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
kjv@Luke:1:26-38	The Birth of Jesus Foretold
kjv@Luke:1:39-45	Mary Visits Elizabeth
kjv@Luke:1:46-56	Mary's Song
kjv@Luke:1:57-66	The Birth of John the Baptist
kjv@Luke:1:67-80	Zechariah's Song
kjv@Luke:2:1-7	The Birth of Jesus
kjv@Luke:2:8-20	The Shepherds and the Angels
kjv@Luke:2:21-40	Jesus Presented in the Temple
kjv@Luke:2:41-52	The Boy Jesus at the Temple
kjv@Luke:3:1-20	John the Baptist Prepares the Way
kjv@Luke:3:21-38	The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus
kjv@Luke:4:1-13	The Temptation of Jesus
kjv@Luke:4:14-30	Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
kjv@Luke:4:31-37	Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit
kjv@Luke:4:38-44	Jesus Heals Many
kjv@Luke:5:1-11	The Calling of the First Disciples
kjv@Luke:5:12-16	The Man With Leprosy
kjv@Luke:5:17-26	Jesus Heals a Paralytic
kjv@Luke:5:27-32	The Calling of Levi
kjv@Luke:5:33-39	Jesus Questioned About Fasting
kjv@Luke:6:1-11	Lord of the Sabbath
kjv@Luke:6:12-16	The Twelve Apostles
kjv@Luke:6:17-26	Blessings and Woes
kjv@Luke:6:27-36	Love for Enemies
kjv@Luke:6:37-42	Judging Others
kjv@Luke:6:43-45	A Tree and Its Fruit
kjv@Luke:6:46-49	The Wise and Foolish Builders
kjv@Luke:7:1-10	The Faith of the Centurion
kjv@Luke:7:11-17	Jesus Raises a Widow's Son
kjv@Luke:7:18-35	Jesus and John the Baptist
kjv@Luke:7:36-50	Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
kjv@Luke:8:1-15	The Parable of the Sower
kjv@Luke:8:16-18	A Lamp on a Stand
kjv@Luke:8:19-21	Jesus' Mother and Brothers
kjv@Luke:8:22-25	Jesus Calms the Storm
kjv@Luke:8:26-39	The Healing of a Demon-possessed Man
kjv@Luke:8:40-56	A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
kjv@Luke:9:1-9	Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
kjv@Luke:9:10-17	Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
kjv@Luke:9:18-27	Peter's Confession of Christ
kjv@Luke:9:28-36	The Transfiguration
kjv@Luke:9:37-45	The Healing of a Boy With an Evil Spirit
kjv@Luke:9:46-50	Who Will Be the Greatest?
kjv@Luke:9:51-62	Samaritan Opposition
kjv@Luke:10:1-24	Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two
kjv@Luke:10:25-37	The Parable of the Good Samaritan
kjv@Luke:10:38-42	At the Home of Martha and Mary
kjv@Luke:11:1-13	Jesus' Teaching on Prayer
kjv@Luke:11:14-28	Jesus and Beelzebub
kjv@Luke:11:29-32	The Sign of Jonah:
kjv@Luke:11:33-36	The Lamp of the Body
kjv@Luke:11:37-54	Six Woes
kjv@Luke:12:1-12	Warnings and Encouragements
kjv@Luke:12:13-21	The Parable of the Rich Fool
kjv@Luke:12:22-34	Do Not Worry
kjv@Luke:12:35-48	Watchfulness
kjv@Luke:12:49-53	Not Peace but Division
kjv@Luke:12:54-59	Interpreting the Times
kjv@Luke:13:1-9	Repent or Perish
kjv@Luke:13:10-17	A Cripple Woman Healed on the Sabbath
kjv@Luke:13:18-21	The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
kjv@Luke:13:22-30	The Narrow Door
kjv@Luke:13:31-35	Jesus' Sorrow for Jersalem
kjv@Luke:14:1-14	Jesus at a Pharisee's House
kjv@Luke:14:15-24	The Parable of the Great Banquet
kjv@Luke:14:25-35	The Cost of Being a Disciple
kjv@Luke:15:1-7	The Parable of the Lost Sheep
kjv@Luke:15:8-10	The Parable of the Lost Coin
kjv@Luke:15:11-32	The Parable of the Lost Son
kjv@Luke:16:1-15	The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
kjv@Luke:16:16-18	Additional Teachings
kjv@Luke:16:19-31	The Rich Man and Lazarus
kjv@Luke:17:1-10	Sin, Faith, Duty
kjv@Luke:17:11-19	Ten Healed of Leprosy
kjv@Luke:17:20-37	The Coming of the Kingdom of God
kjv@Luke:18:1-8	The Parable of the Persistent Widow
kjv@Luke:18:9-14	The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
kjv@Luke:18:15-17	The Little Children and Jesus
kjv@Luke:18:18-30	The Rich Ruler
kjv@Luke:18:31-34	Jesus Again Predicts His Death
kjv@Luke:18:35-43	A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight
kjv@Luke:19:1-10	Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
kjv@Luke:19:11-27	The Parable of the Ten Minas
kjv@Luke:19:28-44	The Triumphal Entry
kjv@Luke:19:45-48	Jesus at the Temple
kjv@Luke:20:1-8	The Authority of Jesus Questioned
kjv@Luke:20:9-19	The Parable of the Tenants
kjv@Luke:20:20-26	Paying Taxes to Caesar
kjv@Luke:20:27-40	The Resurrection and Marriage
kjv@Luke:20:41-47	Whose Son Is the Christ?
kjv@Luke:21:1-4	The Widow's Offering
kjv@Luke:21:5-38	Signs of the End of the Age
kjv@Luke:22:1-6	Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
kjv@Luke:22:7-38	The Last Supper
kjv@Luke:22:39-46	Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives
kjv@Luke:22:47-53	Jesus Arrested
kjv@Luke:22:54-62	Peter Disowns Jesus
kjv@Luke:22:63-65	The Soldiers Mock Jesus
kjv@Luke:22:66-23:25	Jesus Before Pilate and Herod
kjv@Luke:23:26-43	The Crucifixion
kjv@Luke:23:44-49	Jesus' Death
kjv@Luke:23:50-56	Jesus' Burial
kjv@Luke:24:1-12	The Resurrection
kjv@Luke:24:13-35	On the Road to Emmaus
kjv@Luke:24:36-49	Jesus Appears to the Disciples
kjv@Luke:24:50-53	The Ascension

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Luke, Gospel according to @ was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord's ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrative of the facts kjv@Luke:1:1-4). The authors of the first three Gospels, the synoptics, wrote independently of each other. Each wrote his independent narrative under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Each writer has some things, both in matter and style, peculiar to himself, yet all the three have much in common. Luke's Gospel has been called "the Gospel of the nations, full of mercy and hope, assured to the world by the love of a suffering Saviour;" "the Gospel of the saintly life;" "the Gospel for the Greeks; the Gospel of the future; the Gospel of progressive Christianity, of the universality and gratuitousness of the gospel; the historic Gospel; the Gospel of Jesus as the good Physician and the Saviour of mankind;" the "Gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man;" "the Gospel of womanhood;" "the Gospel of the outcast, of the Samaritan, the publican, the harlot, and the prodigal;" "the Gospel of tolerance." The main characteristic of this Gospel, as Farrar (Cambridge Bible, Luke, Introd.) remarks, is fitly expressed in the motto, "Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil" kjv@Acts:10:38; comp. kjv@Luke:4:18). Luke wrote for the "Hellenic world." This Gospel is indeed "rich and precious." "Out of a total of 1151 verses, Luke has 389 in common with Matthew and kjv@Mark:176 in common with Matthew alone, 41 in common with Mark alone, leaving 544 peculiar to himself. In many instances all three use identical language." (
See MATTHEW ; MARK; GOSPELS.) There are seventeen of our Lord's parables peculiar to this Gospel. (
See List of Parables in Appendix.) Luke also records seven of our Lord's miracles which are omitted by Matthew and Mark. (
See List of Miracles in Appendix.) The synoptical Gospels are related to each other after the following scheme. If the contents of each Gospel be represented by 100, then when compared this result is obtained: Mark has 7 peculiarities, 93 coincidences. kjv@Matthew:42 peculiarities, 58 coincidences. kjv@Luke:59 peculiarities, 41 coincidences. That is, thirteen-fourteenths of Mark, four-sevenths of Matthew, and two-fifths of Luke are taken up in describing the same things in very similar language. Luke's style is more finished and classical than that of Matthew and Mark. There is less in it of the Hebrew idiom. He uses a few Latin words kjv@Luke:12:6 kjv@Luke:7:41 kjv@Luke:8:30 ; 11:33; 19:20), but no Syriac or Hebrew words except sikera, an exciting drink of the nature of wine, but not made of grapes (from Heb. shakar, "he is intoxicated", kjv@Leviticus:10:9), probably palm wine. This Gospel contains twenty-eight distinct references to the Old Testament. The date of its composition is uncertain. It must have been written before the Acts, the date of the composition of which is generally fixed at about 63 or 64 A.D. This Gospel was written, therefore, probably about 60 or 63, when Luke may have been at Caesarea in attendance on Paul, who was then a prisoner. Others have conjectured that it was written at Rome during Paul's imprisonment there. But on this point no positive certainty can be attained. It is commonly supposed that Luke wrote under the direction, if not at the dictation of Paul. Many words and phrases are common to both; e.g., compare: kjv@Luke:4:22; with kjv@Colossians:4:6. kjv@Luke:4:32; with kjv@1Corinthians:2:4. kjv@Luke:6:36; with kjv@2Corinthians:1:3. kjv@Luke:6:39; with kjv@Romans:2:19. kjv@Luke:9:56; with kjv@2Corinthians:10:8. kjv@Luke:10:8; with kjv@1Corinthians:10:27. kjv@Luke:11:41; with kjv@Titus:1:15. kjv@Luke:18:1; with kjv@2Thessalonians:1:11. kjv@Luke:21:36; with kjv@Ephesians:6:18. kjv@Luke:22:19-20; with kjv@1Corinthians:11:23-29. kjv@Luke:24:46; with kjv@Acts:17:3. kjv@Luke:24:34; with kjv@1Corinthians:15:5.

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