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16 unusual facts about Gospel of Luke


Apostolic poverty

In this, these orders attempted to live their lives without ownership of lands or accumulation of money, following the precepts given to the seventy disciples in the Gospel of Luke (10:1-24), and succeeding to varying degrees.

Braque Triptych

The texts are all taken from the Gospel of John, except for that of the Virgin's, which comes from the Gospel of Luke.

Bruce Marchiano

In 2009's Road to Emmaus Marchiano portrays Christ's mysterious post-resurrection appearance to two disciples, described in the Gospel of Luke.

Criterion of multiple attestation

Under the two-source hypothesis, both the authors of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke used the Gospel of Mark in their writings; therefore, triple-tradition material represents only a single source, Mark.

Cura te ipsum

:23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” - Gospel of Luke chapter 4:23

The first textual reference to this proverb was citing Jesus in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4:23 in the context that Jesus expected to hear the proverb said to him in Nazareth, where "the people there would expect him to work miracles in his hometown as he had in other places".

I. Howard Marshall

Marshall's main interests in research have been the Gospel of Luke and Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, and aspects of New Testament theology.

My two cents

The earliest reference to an analog of "two cents" appears in the lesson of the widow's mite in both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke.

Pleonexia

Pleonexia, being mentioned in the New Testament in Colossians 3 verses 1–11 and Luke 12 verses 13–21, has been the subject of commentary by Christian theologians.

Puroshottam Choudhary

Later, he looks been influenced by other Christian evangelists like Helen Knott, General Adjutant Evalin, and Major Brett from East India Company—While working as a tutor in Parlakimedi, he sent a letter to Serampore-press, and through Roman Catholics who happened to know his letter, he was directed to Helen Knott, who gave Gospel of Luke and two tracts—In May 1833, he went to Vizagapatnam to meet missionaries, then-overseen by Major Brett.

Roger Stronstad

In The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke (1984), he argues for a Pentecostal interpretation of Luke-Acts.

Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest

Another example of this is, "Let the Dead bury their own Dead" from the song "Wake Dead Man, Wake" these are lines originally spoken by Jesus in The Gospel of Luke, thus serving as a Biblical allusion.

St. Luke Passion

Luke Passion is a common English title referring to the passage in the Gospel of Luke describing the suffering and death of Jesus.

Synod of Homberg

On the following day (Tuesday, October 23), when the synod was on the point of closing, there appeared unexpectedly Master Johann Sperber, of Waldau, near Kassel, who made a vain attempt to justify the invocation of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, by the angelic salutation in the first chapter of Luke.

Tears of the Prodigal Son

Every lament is prefaced by a convenient quote from the Gospel of Luke whence the plot itself is adopted from.

The Toy That Saved Christmas

Bob suggests that they go see Grandpa George who reads the Nativity of Jesus from Luke Chapter 2: verses 8-14.


Abu Saymeh

Abu Saymeh is a Muslim calligrapher who earned worldwide fame when he was selected by Victor Batarseh, the Christian mayor of Bethlehem on the West Bank, to copy out in Arabic script the Gospel of Luke from the New Testament of the Christian Bible for presentation to the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI.

Evangelist portrait

Each Gospel of the Four Evangelists, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, may be prefaced by a portrait of the Evangelist, usually occupying a full page.

Family 13

Family 13, also known Ferrar Group (f13, von Soden calls the group Ii), is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 11th to the 15th century, which display a distinctive pattern of variant readings — especially in placing the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53-8:11) in the Gospel of Luke, rather than in the Gospel of John.

Frank Hanna III

The papyrus includes the oldest extant copy of portions of the Gospels of Luke and John as well as the oldest transcription of the "Our Father".

In paradisum

The melodic highpoint in this setting comes on the name of Lazarus, the poor beggar in Luke's Gospel.

Raising of the son of the widow of Nain

The raising of the son of the widow of Nain is an account of a miracle by Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of Luke.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

"'I am Lazarus, come from the dead'" (94) may be either the beggar Lazarus (of Luke 16) returning for the rich man who was not permitted to return from the dead to warn the brothers of a rich man about Hell, or the Lazarus (of John 11) whom Christ raised from the dead, or both.