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Day 2 Luke 1:1-4 Luke writes about things which are most surely believed among us. He is writing about things already commonly known and believed among Christians. When Luke wrote, most Christians already knew all about the life of Jesus, both from the oral accounts passed on by the original disciples, and by the biographies that had already been written. Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word delivered them to us: Luke tells us that he received his material for this book as any reliable historian would, from eyewitnesses. Those who from the beginning are certainly the apostles, who were with Jesus from the very start. But those who from the beginning would also include people such as Mary herself, whom Luke probably "interviewed" in his research for this history of the life of Jesus. She was at the nativity while the disciples came on the scene much later. The first four verses are one sentence in the original Greek. They are written in refined, academic, classical style. But then, for the rest of the gospel, Luke uses the language of the street. Luke is saying to us, "This account has all the proper academic and scholarly credentials but is written for the common man." Luke wrote so that people would understand Jesus, not so they would admire his brain and literary skill. #247daily
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