Day 11 - Luke 5:12-9:17

Luke is the longest of the four gospels and quite comprehensive in the detail he provides surrounding the various events in the life of Christ. Without in the least diminishing the deity of Christ, Luke has focused on Christ in His humanity, the "Son of Man," as evidenced first in the extensive account of the birth of the Messiah. Luke's audience is primarily the Gentile world, so he takes great pains to explain the events surrounding both the birth of John the Baptist and of Jesus Himself. Luke is the only writer in the Bible to provide a brief glimpse into the life of the boy, Jesus in his account of Jesus at the Temple at about age 12 (Luke 2:41-52).

Written to a Gentile world, and perhaps that of the philosophical Greeks more than any other, Luke presents the truth of Jesus Christ as an historical account. The genealogy provided in chapter 3 extends back to Adam, the first man, in order to demonstrate that all men are stained by sin and in need of a Savior, and that Jesus is a part of the human race, and not just God come down.

Since Luke tells his purpose in writing "having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order" (Luke 1:1-4), it may be assumed that Luke's history was planned from the beginning to be pure truth in chronological sequence. (I've heard it said, although I can't cite a source, that Luke may have been written as a legal defense for Paul while the latter was imprisoned in Rome.)

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