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For Luke, Jesus is our Compassionate Savior. Luke's image of Jesus is presented as the compassionate Savior of the world, with love and compassion for all people, whether rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. He reaches out especially to poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, the women and the poor and outcast of society. Luke emphasizes divine mercy, depicting God as the Father who forgives his prodigal children with unbounded love. Meeting Jesus as the compassionate Savior draws us to imitate the Lord by approaching the Father in confident prayer. The story of the widow of Nain teaches us about Jesus' mercy to a grieving mother (Luke 7:11-17).

Jesus says that the human person is one who does not depend on only food and other necessities for life but also relies on the Word of God (Luke 4:4). He also states how the human person is to be toward others. The human person is to show mercy to those who love (Him), and those who oppress (Him), everyone (Luke 6:36).

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Who do the gospel writers say Jesus is?

Mark's Gospel portrays Jesus as fully human, adopted by God as his son at the time of his baptism. This gospel even has Jesus deny being God ("Why call me good, there is none good but God").Matthew and Luke portray Jesus as the Son of God from his conception, but not divine in the way that God was.John's Gospel portrays Jesus as divine and pre-existing, from the time of creation. In this gospel, Jesus frequently asserts his divinity.


Which gospel focuses on the divinity of Jesus?

Mark's Gospel portrays Jesus as fully human, adopted by God as his son at the time of his baptism. This gospel even has Jesus deny being God ("Why call me good, there is none good but God").Matthew and Luke portray Jesus as the Son of God from hi conception, but not divine in the way that God was.John's Gospel portrays Jesus as divine and pre-existing, from the time of creation. In this gospel, Jesus frequently asserts his divinity.


Which gospel author traced Jesus lineage back to Adam?

The gospel author who traces Jesus' lineage back to Adam is Luke, in the Gospel of Luke chapter 3.


Who is Heli in the Gospel of Luke?

In Luke's Gospel, Heli was the father of Joseph and (so it was supposed) the paternal grandfather of Jesus. He does not appear in Matthew's Gospel, where the paternal grandfather of Jesus was Jacob.


What parables did Jesus preach in Luke Gospel?

The most famous parable in the gospel of Luke was The Prodigals Son.


Why does Mark portray Jesus as fully human?

A:Mark's Gospel was the first New Testament gospel to be written, dated to approximately 70 CE. If Mark portrays Jesus as fully human, which it certainly does, then this was probably the orthodoxy of his time. Later gospels, Matthew and Luke, portray him as the son of God from his conception, and eventually John portrays him as divine and pre-existing.


Why is the genealogy of Jesus not in John's Gospel?

A:There are two different genealogies of Jesus, in Matthew's Gospel and Luke's Gospel. We know that the author of John knew the version in Luke because it has been established that the author of John based his gospel loosely on Luke's Gospel. That he did not use that genealogy suggests he did not consider it important, did not believe it or felt that it did not suit the Jesus he wished to portray in John's Gospel. Whereas Luke portrays Jesus as the human son of God from conception, John portrays him as divine and pre-existing. Verse 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It is not hard to realise that the author thought the idea of a human genealogy was too profane for this concept. John's emphasis was to be on the divinity of Jesus, not a claim to be the Jewish messiah based on a supposed descent from King David.


What is so significant about Jesus' last words in Luke?

We now know that the author of Luke's Gospel, as with the author of Matthew's Gospel, relied on Mark's Gospel for his information about the life and mission of Jesus, supplementing this with sayings from the 'Q' document.When Luke copies Mark, it usually does so reasonably accurately, but the last words of Jesus given by Luke are very different than those given by Mark. According to Mark's Gospel Jesus said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me," just before he died. But in Luke's Gospel, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." The significance of this is that Mark's words portray an unwillingness to die in this manner and the thought that God has let Jesus down. When Luke replaces this, it becomes an almost triumphant passing of Jesus from this earth into the hands of his Father. This is a magnificant reversal that demonstrates some of the genius of Luke.We also now know that the author of John's Gospel used Luke's Gospel as his major source on Jesus, so we can expect John to follow Luke. But John differs from both Mark and Luke, with Jesus saying, "It is finished." The significance here is that for John, Jesus was both divine and pre-existing, so the author saw Luke's wording as inappropriate for a Son who is returning to his Father after completing an earthly assignment. "It is finished" gave Jesus the nonchalance and near-equality to God the Father that met John's portrayal of Jesus.


What was John's viewpoint of Jesus in his Gospel?

Whereas Mark's Gospel portrays Jesus as adopted by God at the moment of his baptism, and Matthew and Luke portray him as the Son of God from the moment of his conception, John depicts Jesus as existing from before the time of creation.The synoptic gospels depict Jesus as fearing death (cf Luke 22:44), although resolute in the face of death, but John's Gospel portrays him as triumphant in the knowledge that his mission is finished (John 17:4, 19:30).


According to Luke's gospel the Magi visited the baby Jesus?

Actually, the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus is not recorded in Luke's gospel but in the Gospel of Matthew. The story can be found in Matthew 2:1-12. Luke's gospel includes the nativity story, but it focuses more on the shepherds who visited Jesus after his birth.


What is the story of Luke in the New Testament?

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Who was Jesus related to according to Luke's Gospel?

A:According to Luke's Gospel, Jesus was related to John the Baptist. His mother Mary was the cousin of John's mother Elizabeth. There are several reasons to doubt this, including that John's Gospel says that the Baptist did not even know Jesus.