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Luke
A B A B Y C R I E S . A doctor smiles. A new life has begun, and the birth
is yet another miracle. The doctor has helped hundreds of babies come
into the world, but each one brings a new sense of wonder at the miracle of birth, a new sense of joy.
Underlying a doctor’s medical training and pracWhat you will be
reading about
tice is a strong sense of compassion. Whether he
is delivering a baby or stitching a wound, dis1:1– 2:52
The births of John the Baptist
pensing medicine or performing surgery, there
and Jesus
is a needy, often frightened, person depending
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on him. Whether she is counseling a patient or
Jesus begins his ministry
diagnosing an illness, the doctor feels a sense
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of compassion for the wounded, the sick, the
Jesus does miracles and
injured, the weak—anyone who comes for help.
teaches in parables
The book of Luke is unique. Through the eyes
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of a compassionate doctor, the compassionate
Jesus teaches while traveling
Son of Man is described to us. As Matthew writes
to Jerusalem
about the King, Luke writes about the Great
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Physician. Luke presents Jesus as the one who
Jesus enters Jerusalem
and clears the Temple of
became like us, suffered like us, faced human
merchants
temptations and problems as we do.
20:1- 47
Dr. Luke gives us insights not found in the other
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Gospels. This Gentile physician was an educated
Jesus
man of culture. Like other educated Greeks, he
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reveals sensitivity to beauty and grace, poetry
Jesus tells about the future
and prayer. He takes us into the Savior’s com22:1– 23:56
passion for those too often passed by. Women
Jesus is betrayed, tried, and
crucified
and children are elevated in Luke’s account.
The Christ of compassion makes no distinction
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Jesus rises from the dead
between man and woman, adult and child, Jew
and appears to his followers
and Gentile, wounded and healthy. He loves us
all. He descended into humanity that he might bring us to God. He is the Christ
who mingled with sinners, knelt in prayer, wept for a city, agonized for people’s
souls, and suffered on the cross for us all.
Luke reveals the poetry of the Gospels—sharing the Magnificat of Mary, the
prophecy of Zechariah, and the praise of the angels. Through Dr. Luke’s eyes
we see the wonders of the baby of Bethlehem, the wonders of a birth so simple
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