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Luke 24 is the twenty-fourth and final chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous , but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles . [ 1 ]
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
For example, according to Luke 2:11 Jesus was the Christ at his birth, but in Acts 2:36 he becomes Christ at the resurrection, while in Acts 3:20 it seems his messiahship is active only at the parousia, the "second coming"; similarly, in Luke 2:11 he is the Saviour from birth, but in Acts 5:31 [45] he is made Saviour at the resurrection; and he ...
Reason: It is possible that this verse is a repetition of Matthew 24:40. Even the King James Version had doubts about this verse, as it provided (in the original 1611 edition and still in many high-quality editions) a sidenote that said, "This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies."
Luke 24:50 names Bethany as the site of ascension, which is identified in Luke 19:29 as a location at the Mount of Olives. [ 22 ] "A Sabbath day's walk " (Greek: Σαββάτου ὁδὸν ): 2,000 cubits (= 5 furlongs ), [ 23 ] about 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer, [ 24 ] showing a proximity to Jerusalem (fulfilling Jesus' command in Luke 24: ...
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James Tissot, Saint Luke, Brooklyn Museum. Epiphanius states that Luke was one of the Seventy Apostles (Panarion 51.11), and John Chrysostom indicates at one point that the "brother" that Paul mentions in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 8:18 [24] is either Luke or Barnabas (Homily 18 on Second Corinthians on 2 Corinthians 8:18).
[5]: 58 𝔓 75 is one of the earliest manuscripts (along with 𝔓 4) of the Gospel of Luke, [7] containing most of Luke 3:18–24:53. [7] [8] An unusual feature of this codex is that when the Gospel of Luke ends, the Gospel of John begins on the same page. [6]: 194 It uses a staurogram (⳨) in Luke 9:23, 14:27, and 24:7. [9]