Luke
The Gospel According to Luke (Greek: Κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον,
kata Loukan euangelionτὸ εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Λουκᾶν, to euangelion
kata Loukan), generally shortened to the Gospel of Luke, is
the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This
synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of
Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from ...
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The third Gospel is ascribed, by the general consent of
ancient Christendom, to "the beloved physician," Luke, the
friend and companion of the apostle Paul.
1. Date of the Gospel of Luke. --From Ac 1:1 it is
clear that the Gospel described "the former treatise" was
written before the Acts of the Apostles; but how much
earlier is uncertain. Pe...
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LITERATURE
1. Text:
The five primary uncials (Codices Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus,
Vaticanus, Ephraemi, Bezae) are the chief witnesses for the
text of Luke's Gospel. This group is reinforced by L, Codex
Delta and the Freer (Detroit) MS; R, T, X and Xi are also
valuable in fragments. The other uncials are of secondary
value. The Latin, Egyptian an...
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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 (Luke 1:1-4). The
authors of the
first three Gospels, the synoptics, wrote
independently of each
other. Each wrote his indepen...
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the evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances
of his
conversion are unknown. According to his own
statement (Luke
1:2), he was not an "eye-witness and minister of the
word from
the beginning." It is probable that he was a
physician in Troas,
and was there converted by Paul, to whom he attached
himself. He
accompanied him to Ph...
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In the preface to his Gospel Luke refers to "many" who
before him had written accounts of what the "eye witnesses"
and "ministers of the word" transmitted. This implies the
"many" were not themselves eye witnesses or ministers of the
word. Matthew's and Mark's Gospels therefore are not
referred to in the term "many." But as the phrase "they
d...
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front Contracted from Lucanus, as Silas is contracted from
Silvanus. A slave name. As Luke was a "physician," a
profession often exercised by slaves and freedmen, he may
have been a freedman. Eusebius (H.E. iii. 4) states that
Antioch was his native city. He was of Gentile parentage
before he became a Christian; as appears from Colossians
4:1...
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