Luke Assessment

St Luke lived in 75A.D. Luke was a Greek and worked as a doctor. We are told this in Colossians 4:14. Luke was a gentile and was writing to Theophilus, as it says ‘Dear Theophilus’ in Luke 1:1. Luke wrote his gospel for everyone: Jews and also non-Jews. He wrote this gospel to inform people about Jesus, and what he preaches. Luke got a lot of his information for his gospel from many different sources, including the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, as Lk:3.1-20 is made up from different sections of these three gospels.

In his gospel, St Luke reveals many times that Jesus is the messiah. In Luke’s gospel there are many accounts of miracles. An example of this is in Lk:18.35-43 which is when Jesus heals a blind man near Jericho, which shows that Jesus had power over illness. Another is in Lk:15.1-7, which is ‘The Lost Sheep’, which shows us that Jesus cares for us and knows us all as individuals, and will guide us when we are lost, or need help, as a shepherd would do with his sheep, and as we would expect the Messiah to so for us. All of these things match the Jewish expectations of the messiah, being strong, and having power over everything, as well as caring for us, and knowing us as individuals. The messiah is also able to guide us when we are lost and needing some assistance in making the right decision.

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Luke tries to link the Jews and Gentiles by showing us that Jesus was not just on earth to save the Jewish people, but also everyone else. As in Lk:10.27 it says that you are to love your neighbour as you love yourself, so we have to learn to forgive people and love them as we love ourselves. In the parable of the Good Samaritan the man who was kind helped the injured man, and then Jesus told the teacher of the Law to do the same. This story also teaches us to think of others and help them ...

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