| The Gospel of Luke |
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| Luke in one (or two) paragraph(s): An orderly account by a self-conscious author, Luke shows us how everything happened just when it should have as he tells a story not merely of local interest but one set in the context of the Roman Empire. Luke shows us a Jesus who is a master storyteller of compelling parables and who was wrongly put to death by the government. Luke continues his story in the book of Acts by telling how, in the years after Jesus' ascension, the gospel spread to Rome. |
| Words about Luke:To readers overawed by Caesar's mighty power
and tossed about by conflicting winds of doctrine, Luke interprets the
resurrection and ascension as the enthronement of Jesus as Lord and Christ
of a universal kingdom of peace, wherein life is ordered by the word of
his chosen witnesses. -- Prof. Robert H. Smith, Easter Gospels, p.
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