LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52. NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY OF JESUS. This
section has outstanding peculiarities of style and diction as compared
with Luke 1:1, and the rest of the Gospel. It has therefore been...
TITLE. ΕΥ̓ΑΓΓΈΛΙΟΝ. See Introd. ch. 1. The word has come to
mean not the ‘good news’ in the abstract but the ‘_written_
Gospel,’ a sense which it acquired before the end of the first
century. But if t...
_THE PREFACE OF ST. LUKE TO HIS WHOLE GOSPEL. THE CONCEPTION OF JOHN
THE BAPTIST, AND OF CHRIST. THE PROPHESY OF ELISABETH, AND OF MARY
CONCERNING CHRIST. THE NATIVITY AND CIRCUMCISION OF JOHN. THE PR...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS
Chapter One
(Luke 1:1-80)
THE GOSPEL OF THE SON OF MAN
IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE:
1.
If others had already been compiling narratives of the life of Jesus,
why did Luke feel it nece...
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON CHAP. 1. AND 2.
It remains for us to form an estimate of the historical value of the
accounts contained in these two Chapter s.
I. _Characteristics of the Narrative._
We ha...
SECTION 1.
THE BIRTH AND GROWTH TO MATURITY OF JOHN AND JESUS (LUKE 1-2).
This first section of Luke's Gospel can be analysed as below. It will
be noted that the analysis, as we would expect, centre...