The Gospel According to Luke (1-End)

After reading the gospel according to Luke, I noticed that he chose to concentrate on the relationship between Jesus Christ and John the Baptist, beginning with their parents. It is said that Gabriel the angel appeared to both Zechariah (John’s father) and Mary (Jesus’s mother) to announce the birth of their children, obviously showing the importance that these boys would have to the world. Another characteristic of Luke’s Gospel is that he wrote more on Jesus’s youth than Mark and Matthew did. One very famous story is the one where Mary finds her son (probably a teenager) on the temple steps surrounded by sages. The boys explanation was that he had to be in his father’s house. I’ve always wondered how it was that Jesus knew with such assurance and from a very young age that he was the son of God. I’m not sure, but if I remember correctly, Christ’s first direct encounter with God was after John had baptized him. My previous guess had been that it was after this event where Jesus accepted himself as the messiah. Luke finally stops mentioning John after he was arrested by Herod, the king of Galilee. Not only did Christ and John the Baptist have very similar birth stories, but they both ended their lives persecuted, imprisoned, and killed by the powerful people of the time.

Luke then goes into repeating the same actions that were explained in both previous gospels such as the miracles, Satan’s test in the wilderness, the sermon on the mount, and the union of Simon Peter, James, and John as one of the apostles. Again, all the teachings mentioned had the same essentials. There is not much to say anymore about the Christ’s trial and crucifixion because it’s all been told before.