Luke 1:1-4
Introduction
1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, 3 it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; 4 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught.
Scripture quotations taken from the NASB © The Lockman Foundation (www.lockman.org)
Central Christian Church 
Luke, the gentile doctor. As I consider Luke’s point of view as a gentile and as a doctor, I first consider the gentile.
As a gentile, a learned gentile and from an affluent family, Luke was under a gentile teacher who would have taught Luke gentile writing styles – which are different than Jewish styles. His writing style is linear, he starts at the beginning and works toward the end. His codifying of Jesus’s pedigree make sense to a gentile. As Gentiles we want know what makes Jesus the authority; we want to know about the proficies of him; as Gentiles we want want to be convinced of who Jesus is.
As a doctor, Luke spent countless hours reading scrolls and gating information that was available. Luke, it would seem, has access to Jewish texts; he had access to people who could recount stories and historical facts. Luke had to have connections to talk to and about a nation, a tribe and its generations who was not to intermarry but be separate from.
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