Quotes about Luke

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me in the ministry.

In the New Testament, Christ's 'virgin birth' is related only by Luke and Matthew. It was unknown, or considered unimportant, in wide areas of early Christian belief (the Pauline and Johannine sectors, for example). But from the third century onwards it became a firm component of the Christian creeds and theological christologies.

And what is the evidence for this conclusion? Chiefly, it is the 11th and 12th verses of Luke, Chapter 21, in which Jesus talks about "great signs from Heaven"—nothing like a UFO is described—in the last days. Typically, Lindsey ignores verse 32, in which Jesus makes it very clear he is talking about events in the first, not the twentieth, century.

While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. Then she gave birth to her firstborn Son. Luke 2:6—7

Often a spirit seizes him … and it throws him into convulsions… . I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. Luke 9:39—40

The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Luke 5:24

Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." LUKE 2:19

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? Luke 6:9

This is My Son, the Chosen One; listen to Him. Luke 9:35

Jesus, Your Word says that You came "to proclaim liberty to the captives" and "to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18).

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.