Reference: Luke, Gospel According To
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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 (Lu 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" (Ac 10:38; comp. Lu 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 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. Matthew 42 peculiarities, 58 coincidences. 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 (Lu 12:6; 7:41; 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", Le 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:
Lu 4:22; with Col 4:6.
Lu 4:32; with 1Co 2:4.
Lu 6:36; with 2Co 1:3.
Lu 6:39; with Ro 2:19.
Lu 9:56; with 2Co 10:8.
Lu 10:8; with 1Co 10:27.
Lu 11:41; with Tit 1:15.
Lu 18:1; with 2Th 1:11.
Lu 21:36; with Eph 6:18.
Lu 22:19-20; with 1Co 11:23-29.
Lu 24:46; with Ac 17:3.
Lu 24:34; with 1Co 15:5.
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SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us, even as they were delivered to us by those who were, from the beginning, eye-witnesses and. ministers of the word; read more. it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus, that you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed;
And all extolled him; and they wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth, and said: Is not this the son of Joseph?
And they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
Be you, therefore, merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
And he spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will not both fall into the pit?
A certain creditor had two debtors; the one owed him five hundred denarii, the other, fifty.
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is your name? He answered, Legion; for many demons had entered into him.
And whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat what is set before you;
No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a secret place, nor under the measure, but upon the lamp-stand, that those who come in may see the light.
But give as charity the contents of the cup, and behold, all things are clean for you.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
And he spoke a parable to them, that they ought always to pray, and not to become weary,
And another came and said: Lord, behold your pound, which I have kept laid away in a napkin.
Watch, therefore, and pray at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
And he took bread, and gave thanks; and he broke, and gave it to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me. In like manner also, the cup, after he had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.
and saying: The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon.
and he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus was it necessary that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day,
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.
explaining and affirming that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.
if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
If any one of the unbelievers invites you to a feast, and you are disposed to go, eat any thing that is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said: Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me. read more. In like manner also, the cup, after he had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore he that eats this bread, or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an improper manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread, and drink of this cup: for he that eats and drinks in an improper manner, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:
praying with all prayer and supplication, at all times, in the Spirit; and to this end being watchful in all perseverance, and supplication for all the saints:
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power,
To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.
Hastings
LUKE, GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
1. The Third Gospel in the Early Church
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And he immediately constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and go before him to the opposite side, while he sent the multitudes away.
Then they understood that he did not bid them beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
And not being able to come near him, on account of the multitude, they took off the roof where he was, and having broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
And he immediately compelled his disciples to get into the ship, and to go before him to the opposite side, to Bethsaida, while he sent the multitude away.
And he sent him away to his house, and said: Neither go into the village, nor tell it to any one in the village.
And they brought little children to him, that he might touch them: but his disciples rebuked those who brought them.
But when you see that detestable thing that makes desolate, which is spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us,
SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us,
SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us,
SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us,
SINCE many have undertaken to compose a history of the things that are fully believed among us, even as they were delivered to us by those who were, from the beginning, eye-witnesses and. ministers of the word;
even as they were delivered to us by those who were, from the beginning, eye-witnesses and. ministers of the word;
even as they were delivered to us by those who were, from the beginning, eye-witnesses and. ministers of the word; it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus,
it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus,
it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus,
it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus,
it seemed good to me also, having obtained exact information of all things from the very first, to write them in order for you, most excel lent Theophilus, that you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed.
that you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed.
that you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed. There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
There was, in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Eliza beth.
And blessed is she who believed; for there shall be a fulfillment of the things which were spoken to her from the Lord.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people;
And it came to pass in those days, that there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the inhabitants of the land should be enrolled.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the inhabitants of the land should be enrolled. This enrollment first took place when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with man.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with man.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with man.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
every ravine shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made level; and the crooked ways shall be made straight; and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
And he said: Verily I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
And finding no way by which they could bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up on the top of the house, and, through the tiling, let him down, with his bed, into the midst before Jesus.
And Levi made him a great feast at his own house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others, who reclined at table with them.
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphreus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for power went forth from him, and healed them all.
To him that strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other; and from him that takes away your mantle, withhold not your coat.
And this report concerning him went abroad into all Judea and all the neighboring region.
And one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee, and reclined at table.
and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him from their means.
And he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure dis eases:
But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they might not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not; for whoever is not against us, is for us. And it came to pass, as the time for him to be taken up into heaven had fully come, that he set his face steadfastly to go up to Jerusalem.
And it came to pass, as the time for him to be taken up into heaven had fully come, that he set his face steadfastly to go up to Jerusalem.
Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.
And after these things, the Lord appointed seventy others, also, and sent them, two and two, before his face, into every city and place to which he himself was about to go.
But, wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor?
And they shall come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and shall recline at table in the kingdom of God.
I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself, shall be humbled; but he that humbles himself, shall be exalted. And they brought to him infants also, that he might touch them. But when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
And they brought to him infants also, that he might touch them. But when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him: Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for I must spend this day at your house.
And when he had said these things, he went before, going up to Jerusalem. And it came to pass, that, when he came near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
And he went into the temple, and began to drive out those who were selling in it, and those who were buying,
And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
But when you shall see Jerusalem besieged by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
But when you shall see Jerusalem besieged by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
When these things begin to take place, look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.
Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the passover, was at hand.
And when the hour had come, he reclined at table, and the twelve apostles with him.
And there had been also a contention among them, which of them was thought to be the greatest.
But they became the more urgent, and said: He ex cites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea, be ginning from Galilee to this place.
And when they came to the place called Skull, they there crucified him and the evil-doers; one on the right, and the other on the left.
THE former record I made, Theophilus, of all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, in which dwelt Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphasus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
Parthians and Modes and Elamites, and we who dwell in Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
And they attended constantly to the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of bread, and the prayers.
For before these days Theudas arose, declaring himself to be some great one; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; and he was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered and brought to naught.
For before these days Theudas arose, declaring himself to be some great one; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; and he was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered and brought to naught. After this man, Judas the Galilean arose, in the days of the enrollment, and drew over many people after him; and he was destroyed, and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.
After this man, Judas the Galilean arose, in the days of the enrollment, and drew over many people after him; and he was destroyed, and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.
that word, you know, which was published through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the immersion that John preached;
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
And one of them, named Agabus, rose and made known, by the Spirit, that a great famine was about to come on the whole habitable land; which took place in the days of Claudius. And every one of the disciples determined, as he had the means, to send relief to the brethren that dwelt in Judea;
These were of a better disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had lately come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, he went to them;
But, after two years, Felix received Portius Festus as his successor; and Felix, wishing to confer a favor on the Jews, left Paul bound.
But, after two years, Felix received Portius Festus as his successor; and Felix, wishing to confer a favor on the Jews, left Paul bound.