This is John from the Bible Project. Tim and I have been preparing for a five-part mini-series

that walk through the entire life of Jesus as told by Luke in his Gospel. The first of these

is on the birth of Jesus, which will release just in time for Christmas, and then the rest will come

out in 2017. Luke is one of four accounts of the life of Jesus found in the Christian scriptures.

There's four of them in the New Testament. That's odd. We're talking about one of the major

world religions and the founding story of the key figure. He doesn't just have one story of his

life, but four parallel versions. This first conversation about Luke is really about what the

Gospels are and what it looks like to trust them as a faithful representation of what happened in

human history. Christianity is based on both claims that something took place in history around

Jesus of Nazareth, but it's also a claim about the meaning of those events that clearly wasn't

compelling to everybody who was there and sought Jesus, because there were many people who thought

he was full of it. There were different interpretations of Jesus, and what we have are the

version of what happened according to disciples. Doing history is difficult. Whenever you recount an

event, you aren't just saying what happened, but you're also explaining why those events mattered.

The meaning of events is actually never just a self-evident thing. What the Gospels are are

recounting of the story of Jesus in the light of the resurrection. So, can we trust the gospel of

Luke as history? Why are there some differences between Luke's account and other accounts?

If you've ever wrestled with being able to trust the Gospels, we hope this dialogue will be a great

aid for you. Let's go.

So, we're talking about gospel of Luke. Here's an interesting fact.

Luke, who as far as we can tell, we can talk about this a little bit more, he's not Jewish.

He wasn't a part of the circle of the 12, but he was an early coworker of Paul's super tied

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