Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew ...

What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those ...

“Stage 3” perspectives – the writers’ concerns ... very heart of Jerusalem by Simeon and Anna. Luke portrays Jesus’ family observantly going to Jerusalem, but in Matthew they avoid the city. This ...

Christian prophetic witness lies at the heart of Luke’s Gospel. “The prophet is led by the Spirit of God; speaks God’s word; embodies God’s word; enacts God’s word; and bears witness ...

The parallels unique to Matthew and Luke gave rise to the theory that these gospel authors made use of a second source for their material, resulting in the equivalencies in their work. Scholars ...

"Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts?" (Luke 24:38). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one of the three synoptic Gospels, and is an important reminder to ...

The Gospel of Luke is the first volume of Luke-Acts, which was composed by "Luke the beloved physician," a traveling companion of St. Paul (Col 4:14). The Gentile St. Luke wrote his work for ...