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    The Gospel of Luke is the third of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension...
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    (see Leviticus 12:2–8), should have attended a ceremony of ritual purification. The Gospel of Luke 2:22–39 relates that Mary was purified according to the...
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    The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945...
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    Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed...
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    Marcion of Sinope to the exclusion of the other gospels. The majority of scholars agree that this gospel was a later revised version of the Gospel of Luke, though...
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  • viewpoint, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, collectively called the Synoptic Gospels, are the primary sources of historical information about Jesus and...
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  • were the most popular gospels while Luke and Mark were less popular in the early centuries of the church. Many non-canonical gospels were also written, all...
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    compiled gospel was that of Marcion and that this gospel of Marcion was used as inspiration for some, or all, of the canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and...
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    Q source (redirect from Q Gospel)
    sayings (λόγια, logia). Q is part of the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis...
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    The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in...
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    revolt of Jewish extremists (called Zealots) led by Judas of Galilee. The Gospel of Luke uses the census to date the birth of Jesus, which the Gospel of Matthew...
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    founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make up a two-part work, Luke–Acts, by...
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    following titles: the Gospel of Matthew; the Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Luke; and the Gospel of John. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are known as the...
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    two of whom were present during the burial. The Gospel of Luke is the only gospel to omit the detail of the sour wine mix that was offered to Jesus on...
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    the primary teachers of the gospel message of Jesus. There is also an Eastern Christian tradition derived from the Gospel of Luke that there were seventy...
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    The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence...
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    Jesus (redirect from Jesus of Nazareth)
    written was the Gospel of Mark (written AD 60–75), followed by the Gospel of Matthew (AD 65–85), the Gospel of Luke (AD 65–95), and the Gospel of John (AD 75–100)...
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    forms of iconography. Synoptic gospels: Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Mark Gospel of Luke Longer ending of Mark (see also the Freer Logion) Gospel of John...
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    The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical Gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism...
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  • The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts. The author is not named in either volume. According...
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    temple at age 12 quoting parts of the gospel of Luke. (see Infancy 19:1–12 and Luke 2:41–52). The author of the gospel is unknown. In the earliest Syriac...
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    Luke–Acts is the composite work of the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. Both of these books of the Bible are...
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    other gospels. The Gospel of Matthew 26:15 states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. The Gospel of Luke 22:3 and...
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  • Testament consists of 27 books: 4 canonical gospels credited to the "Four Evangelists" (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) The Acts of the Apostles 13 Pauline...
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    birthday of Sol Invictus ('Invincible Sun'), as the birthday of Christ. The nativity accounts in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke do not mention...
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    town of Magdala, a fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Roman Judea. The Gospel of Luke chapter 8 lists Mary Magdalene as one of the...
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    respectively. The two nativity accounts of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke differ substantially from each other, and are considered to have been...
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    Cleopas (category Followers of Jesus)
    Cleophas, was a figure of early Christianity, one of the two disciples who encountered Jesus during the Road to Emmaus appearance in Luke 24:13–32. Some writers...
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    and the Gospel of Luke. While Luke traces the genealogy upwards towards Adam and God, Matthew traces it downwards towards Jesus. Both gospels state that...
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    Luke 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. With 80 verses, it is one of the longest chapters in the...
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