This is John from the Bible Project.

Tim and I have been working on a series of videos that tell the story of Jesus as recorded

by Luke in his gospel.

In this episode of the podcast, we're going to do a quick overview of the entire book of

Luke.

We're going to work through each of the sections and observe how they all fit together.

Luke is a literary genius and he makes it clear he was constant quotations and illusions

of Old Testament stories that Jesus is the continuation of the hope of the Jewish

scriptures.

Jesus' story picks up the story of God in Israel that you read in the Old Testament

scriptures and it's bringing that story to a culminating point.

Luke also wants you the reader to see how Jesus' mission is to outsiders to the poor and

marginalized.

The surprising people, shocking, scandalous, surprising people that Jesus hung out with

and that constantly he was including and having parties with.

As Jesus went around preaching about the Kingdom of God, he changed people and he called

these people to live radically new lives of justice and peace.

Luke uniquely wants to highlight the social implications of these Kingdom communities

that Jesus wanted to form.

The gospel of Luke is a rich book and it all works together to give a vision for who

Jesus was, what he taught, and the surprising ending to his life.

Let's go.

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