The author of Matthew wrote of a Kingdom that would embrace Jews and gentiles alike. The author of Luke wrote for a community which also awaited the arrival of God's Kingdom, but which was concerned ...

This Christmas Eve, let’s step into the story of Jesus’ birth as told by the author of the Gospel of Luke. It is only in Luke’s narrative of the Nativity that we encounter the shepherds, the manger ...

The Gospel according to Luke was not written by a witness to the birth of Jesus. St. Luke probably never even saw Jesus. Instead, he studied the written accounts of the birth and life of Jesus, ...

The following passage is from the Bible, Luke 2:1-20, NIV. In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took ...

What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...