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1. Luke 1:1-4; John 20:30-31; 21:24-25.
2. Luke 1:3-4.
3. In a few places of Scripture the method of
inspiration did involve word-for-word
dictation (e.g., the Ten Commandments).
See Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix,
A General Introduction to the Bible, pp. 3436; 43-47.
4. More is known of Luke from his Acts
book than from the gospel. In the former he
is one of Paul’s companions in the “we”
sections (to be studied later).
5. Note the medical terms and descriptions
in these passages: Luke 4:38-39; 8:43-44;
13:11; 16:20-21. Also it is signi cant that of
the six miracles recorded by Luke and not
found in the other gospels, ve are miracles
of healing: 7:11-18 (widow’s son); 13:11-17


(eighteen-year in rmity); 14:1-6 (man with
dropsy); 17:11-19 (ten lepers); 22:50-51
(ear healed).
6. Luke is mentioned by name only three

times in the New Testament. These
occurrences are in prison epistles of Paul:
Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon
24.
7.
Donald
Guthrie, New Testament
Introduction, p. 99.
8. See Hiebert, An Introduction to the New
Testament, pp. 114-24; and Thiessen,
Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 15054.
9. Faith is also a key truth in Paul’s
writings, and the close relationship of Paul
and Luke might partly account for Luke’s
emphasis of this foundational doctrine. In
the New Testament, the word faith appears
more than 240 times, and only 53 times
outside of Paul’s and Luke’s writings.
10. The full biographical content of the