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Luke 8 is the eighth 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 , a companion of Paul the Apostle on his missionary journeys, [ 1 ] composed both this Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles . [ 2 ]
Scholars find that many textual variants in the narratives of the Nativity of Jesus (Luke 2, as well as Matthew 1–2) and the Finding in the Temple (Luke 2:41–52) involve deliberate alterations such as substituting the words 'his father' with 'Joseph', or 'his parents' with 'Joseph and his mother'. [4]
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 [47] he is made Saviour at the resurrection; and he ...
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 ...
Susanna is among the women listed in Luke 8 as being one of the women who has been "cured of evil spirits and diseases" and provided for Jesus out of their resources. And Joanna the wife of Chuza , Herod's steward; and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
The King James Version's wording is "ungrammatical, a strange expression". [19] Many translations insert reference to his "work" [28] or his "ministry". [29] Luke does not state how many years John baptised for, but this is when most date the start of Jesus's ministry, 29 or 30.
The Gospel of Luke's version (Luke 8:26–39) is shorter than Mark's, but agrees with most of its details. [6] One detail that is unique to Luke's version is a reference to both the demoniac's nakedness and his subsequent clothing. At Luke 8:27, the gospel writer notes that the demoniac wore no clothes. Then he notes that he "was clothed and in ...
Luke 1:1–4, drawing on historical investigation, identified the work to the readers as belonging to the genre of history. [42] There is disagreement about how best to treat Luke's writings, with some historians regarding Luke as highly accurate, [ 43 ] [ 44 ] and others taking a more critical approach.