Thanks goodness for Luke! Without him, we wouldn't have the wondrous Christmas story, the manger, the shepherds, and the angels. How many Christmas carols we would miss had not this Gentile doctor provided us with the story of Jesus' birth!
Doctor Luke - Colossians 4:14 is probably the only Gentile author in the New Testament. It is likely that Luke never met Jesus, yet he became a believer and later was a close associate of the apostle Paul. The book was written from Caesarea or from Rome.
Luke had a doctor's sense for correct detail. He also understood that Jesus came to save Gentiles as well as Jews. He came from the Greek mindset with its picture of the ideal man. Combine all of those qualities and you have a Gospel that includes details of Jesus' healings (often with the disease named), Jesus' involvement with other people (like Gentiles and women), and descriptions of the human side of Jesus showing that He met the ideal of human perfection. This book carefully documents the perfect humanity of Jesus by emphasizing His ancestry, birth, and early life before carefully and chronologically moving through Jesus' earthly ministry.
The humanity and compassion of Jesus are repeatedly stressed in Luke's Gospel. He portrays Jesus as the ideal Saviour who identified with the sorrow and plight of sinful people. He did this in order to carry the sins of all people to the Cross and to offer the priceless gift of salvation.
Luke explained that he desired to write "an orderly account" of the life of Jesus so "that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed" - Luke 1:3, 4. Read Luke to discover Jesus the Saviour. Trust that his detailed research brings you the truth. Praise God for sending Jesus--the perfect human being--to be the perfect Saviour. Thank Him for saving you.
God Bless,
Dan
Doctor Luke - Colossians 4:14 is probably the only Gentile author in the New Testament. It is likely that Luke never met Jesus, yet he became a believer and later was a close associate of the apostle Paul. The book was written from Caesarea or from Rome.
Luke had a doctor's sense for correct detail. He also understood that Jesus came to save Gentiles as well as Jews. He came from the Greek mindset with its picture of the ideal man. Combine all of those qualities and you have a Gospel that includes details of Jesus' healings (often with the disease named), Jesus' involvement with other people (like Gentiles and women), and descriptions of the human side of Jesus showing that He met the ideal of human perfection. This book carefully documents the perfect humanity of Jesus by emphasizing His ancestry, birth, and early life before carefully and chronologically moving through Jesus' earthly ministry.
The humanity and compassion of Jesus are repeatedly stressed in Luke's Gospel. He portrays Jesus as the ideal Saviour who identified with the sorrow and plight of sinful people. He did this in order to carry the sins of all people to the Cross and to offer the priceless gift of salvation.
Luke explained that he desired to write "an orderly account" of the life of Jesus so "that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed" - Luke 1:3, 4. Read Luke to discover Jesus the Saviour. Trust that his detailed research brings you the truth. Praise God for sending Jesus--the perfect human being--to be the perfect Saviour. Thank Him for saving you.
God Bless,
Dan
