Luke
NOT JEWISH
Luke has been commissioned by Theophilus to produce a volume reflecting the life and teachings of Jesus. Luke makes a point to interview those that were with Jesus from the very beginning. We also know Luke traveled with Paul, we this in Acts of the Apostles. Further Luke is writing this work to demonstrate the fulfillment of Christ work in redeming not only the lost sheep of Israel, but the entire world. There are many that make the argument, the exchange between Jesus and Nichodeamus, where we get the passage - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him."
Luke is writing to a global audience and demonstrating that Chris is not only the Jewish Messiah, he is the Messiah for the whole world.



Chapter 1
Dedication to Theophilus
Theo commissioned Luke to write his account of Jesus' life

John the Baptizer's birth foretold
Look at Zachariah's reaction and the consequences
Jesus' birth foretold
Look at Mary's reaction and the consequences




Mary visits Elizabeth
John leaps in his mother's womb, is this evidence of life at the time of conception
Did the Holy Spirit conceive in Mary the moment she agreed to the God's plan?
Mary's song of praise

Birth of John the Baptizer

Zachariah's prophecy

Chapter 2
The Birth of Jesus

The Shepherds and Angels

Jesus presented at the temple

Return to Nazareth

The boy Jesus in the temple
Jesus submits to his parents, is this a foreshadow of what we see when Mary asks Jesus to solve the wine problem at the wedding

Chapter 3
It is worth noting that all four Gospel writers begin their works with John as a precursor to Christ's ministry. JB is a unifying character across all four authors and Luke makes a specific point of providing us with background information on JB than we receive in any other author's account.

John the Baptizer prepares the way
Genealogy of Jesus - it is worth noting the difference between Matthew's record of Christ's genealogy and Luke's account. Matthew traces Jesus lineage back to the Abraham the Father of the Israelites, Matthew is confirming Jesus as Messiah to the Jewish people. Luke takes Jesus' lineage all the way back to Adam and God, because Luke is writing to a much larger audience


Chapter 4
The temptation of Christ

Jesus begins his ministry
Kingdom of Heaven is here

Jesus rejected at Nazareth
16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” - this is likely referring to the Year of Jubilee, Leviticus 25
20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”22 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph's son?”23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.27 And there were many lepers[a] in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”28 When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.29 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.30 But passing through their midst, he went away.
The year of the Lord's favor
Jesus heals man possessed with an unclean spirit

Jesus heals many

Jesus preaches in the synagogue