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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 ]
Luke 24:13–32 describes the Road to Emmaus appearance in which while a disciple named Cleopas was walking towards Emmaus with another disciple, they met Jesus, who later has supper with them. Mark 16:12–13 has a similar account that describes the appearance of Jesus to two disciples while they were walking in the country, at about the same ...
N. T. Wright considers the detailed narration of the Emmaus journey in Luke 24:13–35 [4] as one of the best sketches of a biblical scene in the Gospel of Luke. [5] Jan Lambrecht, citing D. P. Moessner, writes: "the Emmaus story is one of Luke's 'most exquisite literary achievements'."
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
Joanna is identified as "the wife of Chuza", steward to Herod Antipas, when she is listed as one of the women "cured of evil spirits and infirmities" who accompanied Jesus and the Apostles, and "provided for Him from their substance" in Luke 8:2–3. In Luke 24:10, Joanna is mentioned by name, along with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, as ...
The Gospel of Luke is not alone among the synoptic gospels in containing multiple episodes in which Jesus sends out his followers on missions. The first occasion ( Luke 9:1–6 ) is closely based on the "limited commission" mission in Mark 6:6–13 , which, however, recounts the sending out of the twelve apostles , rather than seventy, though ...
[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]
Codex Bezae, contains text Luke 23:47-24:1 (paraphrastic) Luke 23:6 Πειλᾶτος δὲ ἀκούσας ( when Pilate heard ) – Alexandrian text-type: Westcott and Hort 1881, Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants], 1864–94, Tischendorf 8th Edition, Nestle 1904 [ 48 ]