Portraits of Jesus: Luke

A Contextual Approach for Bible Study...

by Paul Germond

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Published December 1988 by Harpercollins Canada .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Christianity,
• Bible,
• Bible.,
• Criticism, interpretation, etc,
• Early church, ca. 30-600,
• History of doctrines,
• Jesus Christ,
• Luke,
• N.T,
• N.T.,
• Study,
• Religion

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The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	96
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9919109M
ISBN 10	0005999758
ISBN 10	9780005999752

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  If every source of Jesus is a ‘portrait’ and we seek to know who Jesus was and who Jesus is, the Gospel of John is only one stained-glass window . For Luke, Jesus is our Compassionate Savior. Luke's image of Jesus is presented as the compassionate Savior of the world, with love and compassion for all people, whether rich or poor, Jew or Gentile.

Strauss, Mark L. (). Four Portraits, One Jesus: A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels (Kindle Locations ). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. We used this book for a class in our congregation's Bible Training Center, which is geared to teach people interested in pastoring and mission work/5(). Finally, that Luke refers to Mark and Paul as “assistants” (uJphrevth") in Acts and , respectively, where an “assistant” is someone who “handles documents and delivers their content to men,” may indicate Mark’s service in writing an account of the ministry and passion of Jesus—an account which Luke himself used. 2.   One of the ways each book does this is by recounting Jesus’ genealogy. The problem is: the genealogies are different. The Old Testament predicted .

The book of Hebrews is a marvelous treatise revealing the superiority of Christ and his New Covenant system over that of the preparatory Mosaic regime. The first chapter presents some fascinating portraits of the Lord Jesus. Synopsis. The testimony embodied in the Gospels and coming from eyewitnesses [citation needed] provides the substance for O'Collins' book. The author states that to portray Jesus adequately is an impossible dream (John ;).Unlike his near contemporary Marcus Tullius Cicero ( BC/BCE), he left no letters or other personal documents. The only time he was remembered as writing Author: Gerald O'Collins, SJ. Portraits of Christ (The Four Gospels) Page 13 God has given us four pictures or portraits of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. These are the four gospel accounts called Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. God could have given us just one Gospel, but four is so much better. Does God want us to get to know His Son, even though, as 1.