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An Introduction
and Overview of Luke
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What We Find in the Book
-Introductory remarks (11-4)
-Time preceding Christs public ministry
(15- 252)
-His Galilean ministry (31-950)
-His last journeys to Jerusalem (951-1814)
-Events relating His death, burial, resurrection
and ascension (1815-2453)
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What We Find About Luke Himself
-He is mentioned by name only three times in the
New Testament
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Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet
you. Colossians 414
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him
with thee for he is profitable to me for the
ministry. II Timothy 411
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my
fellowlabourers. Philemon 24
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What We Find About Luke Himself
-He is mentioned by name only three times in the
New Testament
-Since he is the writer of Acts, the we
sections of that book include him
-In Troas, he joined Paul as a traveling
companion and co-laborer, as recorded in Acts 16
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And after he had seen the vision, immediately we
endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly
gathering that the Lord had called us for to
preach the gospel unto them. Acts 1610
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What We Find About Luke Himself
-From what is written to the Colossians we can
determine that Luke was a Gentile
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Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and
Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom
ye received commandments if he come unto you,
receive him) And Jesus, which is called Justus,
who are of the circumcision. These only are my
fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have
been a comfort unto me. Epaphras, who is one of
you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you,
always labouring
From among the circumcision
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fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand
perfect and complete in all the will of God. For
I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for
you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in
Hierapolis. Luke, the beloved physician, and
Demas, greet you. Colossians 410-14
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What We Find About Luke Himself
-From what is written to the Colossians we can
determine that Luke was a Gentile
-Luke was with Paul when he arrived in Jerusalem
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And after those days we took up our carriages,
and went up to Jerusalem. Acts 2115
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What We Find About Luke Himself
-From what is written to the Colossians we can
determine that Luke was a Gentile
-Luke was with Paul when he arrived in Jerusalem
-We can conclude that Luke was with Paul during
both of Pauls Roman imprisonments
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Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet
you. Colossians 414
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my
fellowlabourers. Philemon 24
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him
with thee for he is profitable to me for the
ministry. II Timothy 411
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-The stated objective was to strengthen the
faith of Theophilus
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect
understanding of all things from the very first,
to write unto thee in order, most excellent
Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty
of those things, wherein thou hast been
instructed. Luke 13, 4
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-The stated objective was to strengthen the
faith of Theophilus
-Theophilus means lover of God or friend of
God was a very common name among both Jews and
Gentiles of that time
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-Matthew was written primarily with Jews in
mind Mark was written primarily with the Romans
in mind John was written for the general
population of the world
-Luke was apparently written primarily to all
Gentile readers
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-Thus, Theophilus, although a real person,
becomes symbolic of all Gentile readers of the
book
-Luke explains such things as the position of
Palestinian towns (Nazareth, Capernaum, etc.)
and the distance of Mt. Olivet and Emmaus from
Jerusalem
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-This he would not have had to do for a Jewish
audience
-Unlike Matthew, Luke does not point to the past
and the fulfillment of ancient prophecy in order
to prove the Messiahship of Jesus
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What We Can Determine About the Recipient and
Purpose of the Book
-He rather takes a universal view of Christ as
the Savior of all man, tying in His lineage all
the way back to Adam
-From Lukes detailed descriptions of places in
Palestine and his lack of such details in
reference to Italy, it is thought that
Theophilus was from Italy (perhaps even Rome)
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What We Know About the Book Itself
-It is the fullest of the four gospel accounts
-Matthew has 1071 verses Mark has 678 verses
John has 879 verses
-Luke has 1151 verses
-There is a greater emphasis on women in Luke
than any of the other gospel accounts
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What We Know About the Book Itself
-Luke places more emphasis on prayer than any of
the other gospel records
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Matters Unique to Luke
-Over 50 of the contents of Luke is unique
-Some 35 miracles are detailed in the gospel
records seven are unique to Luke (three are
unique to Matthew and two are unique to Mark)
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1) Miraculous catch of fish (51-11)
2) Raising of widow of Nains son (711- 17)
3) Casting out of a demon (1114)
4) Healing of woman bowed together for 18
years (1310-17)
5) Healing of man with dropsy (141-4)
6) Healing of 10 lepers (1711-19)
7) Restoration of right ear of Malchus (2249-51)
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Matters Unique to Luke
-Some 51 parables are found in the gospel
records
-Luke records 31 of these
-18 parables are unique to Luke (ten unique to
Matthew one unique to Mark)
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1) The two debtors (741)
2) The good Samaritan (1030-37)
3) The friend at midnight (115-8)
4) The rich fool (1216-21)
5) The watching servants (1236)
6) The faithful steward (1242)
7) The barren fig tree (136-9)
8) The chief seats (147-11)
9) The great supper (1416-24)
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10) The unfinished tower (1428)
11) The unwaged war (1431)
12) The lost coin (158-10)
13) The prodigal son (1511-32)
14) The unfaithful steward (161-12)
15) The unprofitable servants (177-10)
16) The unrighteous judge (181-8)
17) The Pharisee the publican (189-14)
18) The pounds (1911-27)
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Matters Unique to Luke
-There are several occasions in the life of
Jesus that are recorded only in Luke
-Although some events are similar, detailed
study of these will show that they are separate
events that occurred on different occasions
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1) Announcements of births of John and Jesus
(15-56)
2) Accounts of births of both John and Jesus
(157-220)
3) Events in temple when Jesus was 12 (221-52)
4) Dating of beginning of Johns ministry (31,
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5) Impact of Johns preaching (310-15)
6) Genealogy of Jesus to Adam (323-38)
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7) Christs rejection at Nazareth (415-30)
8) Anointing of Jesus in house of Simon (736-50)
9) The women who ministered to Jesus (81-3)
10) Desire of James and John to call down fire
(951-56)
11) Sending out of the 70 (101-12)
12) Return and reporting of the 70 (1017- 24)
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13) Christ at home of Mary and Martha (1038-42)
14) Jesus entertained by a Pharisee (1137-54)
15) Discourse to a large crowd (121-53)
16) Pilates murder of Galileans (131-5)
17) Teaching that few will be saved (1322-30)
18) Teaching on discipleship and counting the
cost (1425-35)
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19) Regarding the kingdom (1720-27)
20) With Zacchaeus (191-10)
21) His warning to disciples (2231-38)
22) Some events in Gethsemane (2243, 44)
23) Trial before Herod (236-12)
24) Christs words to daughters of Jerusalem
(2327-31)
25) Penitent thief on the cross (2339-43)
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26) Two disciples on road to Emmaus (2413-35)
27) Details of His appearance to the eleven
(2437-39)
28) Christs ascension (2450-53)
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Luke provides us with a tremendous study of the
life of Christ
Without the Holy Spirits guiding him to pen this
book, there are many things we would not know
about our Lord
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Much material from Studies in Luke- Shertz
Lectures, 2003 Lester Kamp