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About us CrossExamined. Learn More ». Total Subscribers: 78, Our App Download App. Recent Videos. Contact Cross Examined. Does God Exist? Either way, the early church appears to have unanimously believed John Mark was the writer of the Gospel of Mark, and no alternatives were ever proposed.
Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, and others all list him as the author. At the beginning of Luke, the author appears to claim not to be an eyewitness to the ministry of Jesus, but rather, someone who has spoken to eyewitnesses and investigated their claims.
With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. Church tradition tells us that Luke was a converted Gentile, which scholars suggest is the reason Paul introduces him separately in Colossians —14, introducing his Jewish companions first:.
These are the only Jews among my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me. Epaphras,who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings.
He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.
Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings. Being a Gentile would also explain why the author takes such an interest in how Gentiles respond to the gospel. For three main reasons, almost all scholars believe the Gospel of Luke was written by the same person who wrote Acts:. If we can safely claim that the author wrote both books—which the vast majority of Bible scholars believe we can—then we can use Acts to learn more about the author of Luke.
Luke and Acts both use specific medical terminology, which would appear to support the claim that Luke the physician is the author of both. In Luke , Jesus heals a crippled woman:. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body.
So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way. The main arguments against Luke as the author are the portrayal of Paul and the theology presented in Luke and Acts.
Some scholars claim that the theologies are different, and that the Paul we see in Acts is different from the Paul we see in his letters.
The most apparent difference in the portrayal of Paul is his treatment of Judaizers. In Acts 21, a group of them tell Paul to participate in purification rituals to prove he still follows Jewish customs and will teach Gentiles to follow them as well—including Jewish food laws.
He complies. They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses,telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, so do what we tell you.
There are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.
After centuries of regular communication from God, the people found themselves without a genuine prophet or spokesman for God. Matthew made that clear. It was true then, and it is certainly true today. Do you ever feel as though God has deserted you or that He sits in silence in the face of your requests? Now resurrected and ascended, the Lord Jesus will always be with us, even to the end of time Matthew View Chuck Swindoll's chart of Matthew , which divides the book into major sections and highlights themes and key verses.
Who wrote the book? Where are we? For example, when King Herod asks the chief priests and teachers of the law where the Messiah was to be born, they quote Micah and to confirm his Bethlehem birth. Does he distort the meaning of the text to fit his agenda? Is he ignoring the most fundamental principles of biblical interpretation: context, context, context? Christians in the West tend to look to prophecy for its apologetic value.
Seen from this perspective, Hosea is part of a larger Israel-Jesus typology that Matthew develops throughout his Gospel. Just as Israel was tested for 40 years in the wilderness, so Jesus is tested by Satan for 40 days in the wilderness Matt While Israel repeatedly failed to obey God, Jesus remains faithful and obedient. Sometimes the Servant is identified with the nation Israel Isa , , , Isaiah , Isaiah , Isaiah , Isaiah and sometimes as an individual who brings salvation to the nation Isa , —7, , , But Israel turned inward and failed to fulfill their calling.
Jesus, by contrast, remains faithful to his mission and shows himself to be the true Servant of the Lord. Jesus is a new Moses, inaugurating the new covenant and bringing the law given at Mount Sinai to its fulfillment. All of these have their roots in the Old Testament and point in one way or another to the theme of fulfillment and the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
So who was Matthew and why did he write this Gospel? Strictly speaking, all four Gospels are anonymous, meaning that the authors do not name themselves. Church tradition, however, tells us that the author of the first gospel was Matthew, a tax collector Jesus called to be his disciple Matt , Little else is known about Matthew.
For whom did Matthew write? While Mark tends to explain Jewish customs for his readers Mark —4, , suggesting a predominantly Gentile audience, Matthew often presents them without explanation ceremonial washings, Matthew ; the temple tax, Matthew ; phylacteries and tassels, Matthew ; whitewashed tombs, Matthew
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