Letter 022 — The Sender: The Gentile Physician (Luke 15)
Luke was a doctor. A Greek. The only Gentile writer in the New Testament, and the only Gospel writer who gives us the full trilogy of lost-and-found parables.
In this letter
- Luke the man — physician, Gentile, companion of Paul (Col 4:14, 2 Tim 4:11, Phlm 24)
- The literary care of Luke's Gospel — preface, eyewitnesses, an orderly account
- Theophilus and Luke's intended audience
- Luke's particular concerns — outsiders, the poor, women, Samaritans, tax collectors
- Why all three parables only exist together in Luke
- The setting of Luke 15 — Jesus at the table with tax collectors and…
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