{"id":11103,"date":"2016-08-17T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-study-on-luke1-2\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:26:20","slug":"a-study-on-luke1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-study-on-luke1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A STUDY ON LUKE\n1\u20132"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>by Michael S. Beates<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Put yourself in the position of Luke, the physician, more than 1,900 years ago. You have been commissioned to \u201cdraw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,\u201d to accurately report on the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah. How would you begin the job? What would be the best sources of information for you to tap? Luke explains that he \u201ccarefully investigated everything from the beginning\u201d in his attempt to accurately present the Gospel of Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>With that background in mind, it is intriguing that immediately following Luke\u2019s very formal classical Greek introductory statement, the style of the infancy narratives abruptly changes to a distinctly Semitic literary style. This more Jewish syntax and language continues throughout chapters 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One very plausible explanation for this is that Luke, in his desire for veracity, sought out and interviewed Mary, the mother of our Lord. As a girl in her mid-teens when Jesus was born, Mary could very possibly have still been living (by then being in her 60s or 70s) when Luke began his research for his gospel.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Who could have better recalled the wondrous events surrounding the births of John the Baptist and Jesus the Messiah? In Matthew\u2019s gospel the birth narratives focus on Joseph rather than Mary. But Luke recounts not only the actions and thoughts of Mary, but much of what happened with Elizabeth and Zechariah, John\u2019s parents, with whom Mary visited for three months while the two women were pregnant (Luke 1:5\u201356).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The very personal and poignant encounters Mary and Joseph had with Simeon and Anna in the temple (2:25\u201338) certainly may have been preserved in a common tradition among believers, but they could also be the memories of one who was present at those meetings. Finally, Luke twice records that \u201cMary treasured all these things in her heart\u201d (2:19, 51). These highly intimate thoughts surely originated from Mary herself and are the strongest indication that Luke had direct contact with Mary as he accumulated his historical information.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>There would have been little reason for Luke to \u201crewrite\u201d in more Hellenistic Greek Mary\u2019s first hand Semitic account of these significant events. These profoundly vivid memories continue to communicate the wonder of God invading history. &#9632;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Michael Beates is a graduate of Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pa., and serves on the staff of Ligonier Ministries<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>monday<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>january<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael S. Beates Put yourself in the position of Luke, the physician, more than 1,900 years ago. You have been commissioned to \u201cdraw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,\u201d to accurately report on the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah. How would you begin the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-study-on-luke1-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A STUDY ON LUKE<br \/>\n1\u20132&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}