Looking for Jesus according to Luke

[JLG]

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Remember:

Luke was a physician!

And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!

Luke was a close friend of Paul!

Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!

Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!

Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!

And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!

Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!

Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!

His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!

While at other times it seems quite Semitic!

He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!

All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!

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Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

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[JLG]

64) Jesus vs the religious leaders

 

Luke 18:31,32

Jesus tells the 12 that they are going to Jerusalem and all the things written by means of the prophets about the Son of man will be accomplished!

He is on earth to accomplish all that was prophesied by the Prophets without any exception!

Precision!

He never does anything by chance!

No human imperfection!

He is like his Father!

He learned everything from him!

[JLG]

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Remember:

Luke was a physician!

And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!

Luke was a close friend of Paul!

Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!

Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!

Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!

And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!

Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!

Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!

His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!

While at other times it seems quite Semitic!

He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!

All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!

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Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

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[JLG]

65) Jesus vs the religious leaders

 

Luke 18:33,34

 

He explains to them what will happen to him before he is killed!

But on the third day he will rise!

The disciples don’t understand him!

The verse says it is hidden from them!

But in fact, it was the same with a big part of Jesus teaching!

They needed him to die!

So they had to take the lead and take responsibility to organize the preaching work!

Because the harvest is great and the workers are few!

 

[JLG]

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Remember:

Luke was a physician!

And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!

Luke was a close friend of Paul!

Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!

Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!

Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!

And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!

Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!

Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!

His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!

While at other times it seems quite Semitic!

He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!

All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!

____________________________________________________________ 

Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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[JLG]

66) Jesus vs the religious leaders

 

Luke 18:35-43

A blind man tries to attract Jesus’ attention!

It works and Jesus commands that the man is brought to him!

He wants to recover his sight!

And Jesus gives him his sight back!

And it occurs instantly!

And the man begins to follow him!

[JLG]

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Remember:

Luke was a physician!

And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!

Luke was a close friend of Paul!

Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!

Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!

Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!

And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!

Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!

Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!

His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!

While at other times it seems quite Semitic!

He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!

All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!

____________________________________________________________ 

Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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[JLG]

67) Jesus vs the religious leaders

 

Luke 19:1-

Jesus tells a chief tax collector he is going to eat at his house!

The man is rich!

He explains to Jesus that he gives all of his wealth to the poor!

And if he extorts someone, he restores him four times over!

And Jesus says he has brought salvation to this house!

But those who think they are better accuse Jesus of eating at the house of a sinner!

They don’t even know his good actions!

It shows that they are completely ignorant!

[JLG]

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.

THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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Remember:

Luke was a physician!

And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!

Luke was a close friend of Paul!

Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!

Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!

Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!

And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!

Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!

Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!

His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!

While at other times it seems quite Semitic!

He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!

All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!

____________________________________________________________ 

Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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[JLG]

68) Jesus vs the religious leaders

In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!

An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!

To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!

When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!

According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!

BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!

And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!

SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!

BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!

What about you?