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December 6, 2018

An orderly account (Lk 1:1-1:1)

“Many people

Have undertaken

To set down

An orderly account

Of the events

That have been fulfilled

Among us.”

 

Ἐπειδήπερ πολλοὶ ἐπεχείρησαν ἀνατάξασθαι διήγησιν περὶ τῶν πεπληροφορημένων ἐν ἡμῖν πραγμάτων,

 

Luke clearly set out his goals in writing this gospel, much like the other historical Hellenistic works of his time.  Although the prologue was one long Greek sentence, it has been divided up into verses.  Matthew, chapter 1:1, called his work a book (Βίβλος), but the 1st chapter was about the genealogy of Jesus, or more precisely Joseph.  Mark was the only one to call his work a gospel (τοῦ εὐαγγελίου), or more precisely, the beginning of a gospel (Ἀρχὴ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου).  Luke admitted that many people had already tried to write a successful orderly account or a narrative (Ἐπειδήπερ πολλοὶ ἐπεχείρησαν ἀνατάξασθαι διήγησιν) about the events and things that had happened or been accomplished or fulfilled among them (περὶ τῶν πεπληροφορημένων ἐν ἡμῖν πραγμάτων), the early Christians.  Luke clearly stated that he was not the first one to write about Jesus and the early Christians.  He was going to rely on others for his orderly account or narrative about the accomplishments of Jesus.

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February 28, 2018

The account of the genealogy of Jesus (Mt 1:1-1:1)

“This book recounts

The genealogy

Of Jesus,

The Messiah Christ,

The son of David,

The son of Abraham.”

 

Βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ Δαυεὶδ υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ

 

This gospel is the only one of the four gospels that calls itself a book (Βίβλος).  Thus, more contemporary translations have used the term ‘an account’ rather than a book, which appears 10 times in the New Testament.   Clearly, this is about the genealogy of Jesus (γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ).  The Greek word for genealogy means origins, like the Greek word for the origins of the world in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.  Then there is the Greek term that we all familiar with “Christ,” (Χριστοῦ), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew “Messiah,” or “The Anointed One.”  This author clearly states at the beginning of this book that it will be about Jesus the expected anointed Messiah, Christ.  This Jesus was the son of David (υἱοῦ Δαυεὶδ) and the son of Abraham (υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ).  Jesus, the Christ, the anointed one, had Jewish ancestry as a son of Abraham.  He also had a royal Hebrew lineage as a son of David.  Unlike the Gospel of Luke, this genealogy does not start with the more universal Adam, but with the first Hebrew or Israelite, Abraham.  Clearly, Jesus was Jewish.

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