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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Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us, As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word; read more. It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised,
And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph
And they were struck with amazement at his teaching: for his word was with power.
Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.
And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Two debtors were to a certain money-lender: one owed five hundred drachmas, and the other fifty.
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is the name to thee? And he said, Legion: for many demons came into him.
For the Son of man came not to destroy men's souls, but to save them. And they proceeded into another town:
And in whatever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat the things set before you.
And none, having lighted a lamp, puts in secret, neither under a bushel, but upon the chandelier, that they coming in should see the light.
But of the things being, give alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you.
Are not five little sparrows sold for two small coins, and one of them is not forgotten before God?
And he spake to them a parable, that they must always pray, and not lose courage;
And another came saying, Lord, behold, thy coin which I have placed in a napkin:
Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man.
Having taken the bread, and returned thanks, he brake, and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you: this do ye for my remembrance. Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:
Saying, That truly the Lord was risen, and was seen to Simon.
And he said to them, That so has it been written, and so was it necessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power; who passed through doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.
Opening and setting before, that it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and rise from, the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus, whom I announce to you.
And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,
And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power
And if any one of the unbelieving call you, and ye wish to go; every thing set before you, eat, interrogating nothing through consciousness.
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread: And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance. read more. Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye announce the Lord's death till he come. Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord. And let a man try himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort:
For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:
By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:
All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.
Hastings
LUKE, GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
1. The Third Gospel in the Early Church
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And after sixty and two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, and not for him: and the people of the leader coming shall destroy the city and the holy place; and its end with an overflowing, and even to the end of the war desolations were determined.
And quickly Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the ship, and to go before him to the other side, till he should loose the crowds.
Then understood they that he spake, not to keep from the leaven of bread, but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
And not being able to draw near to him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was and having excavated, they let down his couch upon which the paralytic was laid.
And quickly he constrained his disciples to go to the ship, and to lead before to the other side of Bethsaida, till he loose the crowd:
And he sent him to his house, saying, Thou shouldest not either enter into the town, neither, say to any in the town.
And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples rebuked those bringing.
And when ye see the abomination of desolation, that spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him reading understand,) then let them in Judea flee to the mountains:
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us,
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us,
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us,
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us,
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us, As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word;
As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word;
As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word; It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.
That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.
That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed. There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
And happy she having believed: for a completion of the things spoken shall be to her from the Lord.
Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people,
And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.
And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled. (This enrolling was first, Cyrenius being leader of Syria.)
Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mount and hill shall be lowered; and the crooked shall be into straightness, and the rough into smooth ways.
And he said; Truly I say to you, That not any prophet is acccepted in his country.
And not finding how they might bring him in, for the crowd, having ascended upon the house, they put him down through the tiles, with the small couch, in the midst before Jesus.
And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house: and there was a great crowd of publicans and others who were sitting down with them.
And all the crowd sought to touch him; for there came forth power from him, and healed all.
To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.
And this word went out about him in all Judea, and in all the country round about.
And a certain one of the Pharisees asked him that he would eat with him. And having come into the Pharisee's house, he reclined.
And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them.
And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
And they knew not this word, and it was hid from them, lest they should understand it: and they feared to ask him concerning this word.
And Jesus said, Hinder him not: for who is not against us is for us. And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem.
And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem.
And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.
And after these the Lord showed forth other seventy, and sent them together two and two before his face into every city and place, where he was about to come.
And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor
And they shall come from the risings, and the settings, and from north, and south, and they shall recline in the kingdom of God.
I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up. And they also brought babes to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples having seen, censured them.
And they also brought babes to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples having seen, censured them.
And when he came to the place, having looked up, Jesus saw him, and said to him, Zaccheus, having hastened, come down; for to day must I remain in thine house.
And having said these, he went before, going up to Jerusalem. And it was as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount called of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
And having come into the temple, he began to cast out them selling and buying in it;
And he was teaching in the day in the temple. And the chief priests and scribes and the first of the people sought to destroy him,
And when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation has drawn near.
And when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation has drawn near.
And these things beginning to be, get out of danger, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.
And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater.
And they were strong, saying, That he stirs up the people, teaching through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.
And when they came to the place called Kranium, there they crucified him, and the evil doers, truly one from the right, and one from the left.
Truly the first word had I made of all things, O Theophilus, of which Jesus began to do and also to teach,
And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James.
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,
And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
For before these days Theudas arose, saying himself to be somebody: which a number of men followed, about four hundred, who was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were destroyed, and were for nothing.
For before these days Theudas arose, saying himself to be somebody: which a number of men followed, about four hundred, who was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were destroyed, and were for nothing. After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.
After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.
The word ye know, having been through the whole of Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the immersion which John preached;
And the apostles and brethren, those being in Judea, heard that the nations also received the word of God.
And one of them having risen, Agabus by name, signified by the Holy Spirit a great famine was about to be upon the whole habitable globe: which was during Claudius Caesar. And certain of the disciples, as he was able, determined, each of them, to send for service to the brethren dwelling in Judea:
And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.
And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; (for Claudius had ordered all Jews to be separated from Rome:) came to them.
And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.