Luke 1: 3
I myself have carefully
investigated everything from the beginning
Luke was a highly educated physician in the Greek academic
tradition. As a physician he was methodical and highly detailed in his
investigation. That was his training in medicine, as a good doctor he need to
investigate every symptom and causes.
Now he has heard all about the life of Jesus Christ and all
that He had done. As a doctor, he would not just want to believe in hear say
but he would want to investigate the narrations and reports that he had
received.
Many of the followers of Jesus had come to him to narrate of
the personal experiences. Luke also wrote the book of Acts and he recorded in
Acts 1: 3 “After his suffering, he
presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.”
The Christian faith was not built on hearsay but was
carefully recorded by fist hand witnesses who were living with Jesus and were
very close to Him. These records are all witnessed and certified by large
numbers of witnesses. There were also physical evidences of the healing
miracles that Luke could testify to.
Then there were those who were dead and are now still living
amon the people. All these are irrevocable proofs of the miracles of Jesus
Christ.
In the gospel of Luke, we read that he addresses it to
Theophilus which in the Greek language means “lover of God”. As in the practice
of scriptures, whenever a proper name is recorded, it refers to a real person.
Luke wrote the gospel as a very personal testimony and we can thank God for
this passionate and accurate record that a learned man like Luke has written
both the gospel as in Luke as well as the book of Acts with much detail on the healing
miracles of Jesus Christ.
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