I imagine pondering on this material has sparked many questions in your mind. I did not mean to infer the questions I left you with in the last Gem are the only questions you can ask. Some of you have responded with other questions that …
No Great Commission In Luke? Gems
Some Bible experts claim there is no reference to the Great Commission in Luke and it seems an after-thought tagged on to Matthew. "Oh by the way guys, one more thing before I go". Is that the case? These three Gems will help you resolve that claim.
Bible Gem 1325 – Is the Great Commission Really an After-Thought in Matthew and Omitted by the Other Writers? (Luke 24:47-49)
I think you will see there are enough common elements in these segments to suggest we are dealing with the same intent. But as I said in an earlier Gem there is more variation than we have had in earlier pericopes. Post resurrection, the accounts …
Bible Gem 1326 – You are witnesses; so be witnesses; to love or to be loved – that is the question (Luke 24:47-49; Acts 1:4,5,8)
Notice the way Luke writes his Gospel emphasising what it was each of these people have seen in the appearances that he lists. Everything is on the basis of what they have heard and seen related to Jesus and His resurrection. Not only the physical …