Stein’s Luke Commentary
Pages 35 to 44

1. Why must one study and consider Luke and Acts when discussing the purpose of Luke’s Gospel?

2. What does the term “mirror reading” of Luke-Acts mean?

3. Various stories and ________________of Jesus may have been included because Luke wanted his readers to know the acts and teachings of the Lord, not because he saw a specific ______________in his readers’ situation that a certain account met.

4. List the four purposes that Stein highlights in Luke’s Gospel.  (Look at the bold- faced statements from page 36 to 44.

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5.  List the four items that indicate Luke’s credentials as an historian (p. 36):

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6. Stein gives 5 pieces of evidence to show the readers of the truthfulness of what they had been taught. List them:

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7. Luke did not see Christianity as a new religion. It was not even a revised form of _________________ resulting in a new ________________.  On the contrary the Christian church is the present-day expression of the religion of ________________, ________________, and the _____________________.  It is the religion of the ___________________ and the _______________ now fulfilled.  

8. What events begin in Jerusalem and end in Jerusalem? (See page 41).

9.  For Luke the believer lives in the joy of the _______________ and the hope of the final ________________________. In part the joy of the ______________ now keeps alive and fuels the hope of the final _____________________. The length of the interval until the _____________________ was on less importance to ____________.

10.  How is Stein able to say that Rome is presented in a positive light in Luke’s Gospel?

11. How should the positive portrayal of Rome be understood?

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