Welcome to the Ten Minute Bible Hour podcast. Right now we're going through the entire Bible

to understand it is one big cohesive story. We're covering one book each day and this

one's about Luke.

It's crazy that Luke contributed as much to the New Testament as he did. He wrote two huge

books. One of them is the Gospel of Luke that we're talking about today. It's the third

of the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And then he wrote a sequel to that

book called Act, which is the fifth book in the New Testament. And it's the history of

what happened with the early church, but not only did Luke write these two huge books,

but also he contributed by word count more to the New Testament than anybody else. I would

have guessed it was Paul before I found out that little fact, but no, it's Luke. North

a 25% of the New Testament comes from Luke. And the reason that's crazy, well, there are

a lot of reasons. Maybe the number one reason that doesn't seem to make sense on paper is

that Luke is a Gentile. He's the only Gentile contributor to this whole thing. And that

really stands out because this has been a very Jewish affair to this point. And Jesus is

Jewish. It's all happening in Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. All of the disciples are Jewish.

But Luke, he's from somewhere up north. He's not a prophet. He's not trained theologically,

at least not in any formal way, like say Paul or some others. He's not a professional historian.

Either he's a doctor. And so both by ethnicity and profession is just pretty wild that he

ended up doing as much Bible writing as he ended up doing. Also, it's kind of awesome that

he's both of those things. One, the Gentile thing is awesome because it undergirds the theological

theme of the Bible that this always was for the Jews and for the Gentiles. But the second

reason that I think who Luke is is pretty awesome considering his role is the way his mind

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