Gospel of Luke

Description

The Gospel of Luke presents the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man working among men in heavenly grace. It is one of three so-called “synoptic” Gospels in the Bible—Matthew and Mark being the others. They are called such because they give a simple overview or synopsis of the Lord’s ministry. (John’s Gospel—apart from chapters two, four, and six—focuses on events in the Lord’s life and ministry at Jerusalem, and therefore, is not considered a “synoptic” Gospel.)

What characterizes the Gospel of Luke is not the Lord’s official glory as the Messiah/King of Israel, as Matthew portrays Him in his Gospel. Nor does it set before us the Lord’s glory as the great Prophet/Servant that God promised to send into the world, as Mark does in his Gospel. Rather, it sets before us the Lord’s moral glory as the Son of Man—the moral perfection in His walk and ways as a Man. Thus, as Matthew has a dispensational order, and Mark a chronological order, Luke follows a moral order. While it may not always seem so, he writes with a “method” (chap. 1:3), often taking things out of their historical sequence and grouping them in a moral order. He does this to teach us certain practical lessons from the life and ministry of the Lord.