Gospel

ACCORDING TO LUKE
Luke (Ox)
 Traditional Implied Author

 Luke

 Physician

 Companion of Paul

 Col 4:14; 2Tim 4:11; Phlm 1:24

 Actual Author

 Gentile Christian convert

 Well educated Greek "historian“

 Client of Theophilus (1:1-4)?

Original Readers / Intended Audience

 Wealthier Gentile Christians

 People in the urban setting

 Those who are becoming

complacent
 Date of Composition

 Mid to late 80's

(incl. "many" earlier written sources)
 Place of Composition

 Probably Greece

 Possibly Syria/Antioch
(Pauline missions)
Gospel of Luke is Unique
 He is the only non-Jew writer
in the New Testament.

 He was probably a Greek.

 Only this gospel has a sequel

“The Acts of the Apostles”

 Luke is the longest gospel that

covers twenty-five percent of
the entire New Testament.
 The genealogy of Jesus Christ is one of the big and controversial
difference.

 Luke followed the lineage of Mary, the mother of Jesus, writes that
Heli is the father of Joseph.

 The gospel of the poor and of social justice.

 Luke also consists of 18 unique parables that are only found in the Luke: the Good Samaritan, the
Lost Sheep, and the Prodigal Son are only found in the book of Luke (Luke 10:25-37, 15:4-7,
15:11-32).
 Made references about women and their stories forty-five times.

 Birth narratives of Jesus and John the Baptist are told from the women’s perspective – Mary and
Elizabeth respectively (chapters 1-2).

 Indicates that women were monetarily supporting Christ’s ministry (8:1-3).

 Luke does not forget to mention those women who followed Jesus from the court to the Cross
(23:49).

 The most spectacular remarking about women in the Gospel is Jesus’ first appearance to women
(24:1-10).
 Thinking that Matthew and Acts are longer than Luke since both have 28 chapters and Luke’s
Gospel only contains 24.

 Luke’s is actually the longest with a word count of 19482 while Acts has 18,450 Greek words
and Matthew’s contains 18,346.

 Luke is the only Gospel written by a Gentile.

 Luke is a physician accounting medical terms in the Gospel like:

“His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after
prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him”

In Luke 14, we encounter a man with dropsy. Luke uses the word hudropikos, which occurs
nowhere else in the Bible but can also be found in Hippocratic writings.
 Features PARABLES found only in Luke:

Parable of two debtors (7:40–43)

Parable of the friend at midnight (11:5–8)
Parable of the rich fool (12:13–21)
Parable of punishment (12:47–48)
Parable of the barren tree (13:1–9)
Parable of the lost coin (15:8–10)
Parable of the shrewd manager (16:1–12)
Parable of the rich man and Lazarus (16:19–31)
Parable of the persistent widow (18:1–8)
Parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (18:9–14)
Thank You