Luke's Account

Question 1

What’s the main theme in Luke’s account?

Answer 1

continuity between Judaism and Christianity

Question 2

how does it begin?

Answer 2

With it’s root’s in Judaism, with the sorry of John the Baptist

Question 3

Story of John the Baptist?

Answer 3

his parents were of Jewish priestly heritage (his father a priest and mother a decedent of the First High Priest )

• they were both righteous Jesus and the story begins in the temple, the very heart of Judaism
• father burning an incense in temple an angel appeared to him and said he was going to be the father of a son who ‘..will go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah’
• showing Christianity was born out of Judaism