Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

We've previously taken detailed looks at the Gospels of Mark and Matthew,

examining how each author portrayed Jesus and discussing what overall message they were trying to convey.

This week, it's Luke's turn. Is his Jesus the son of God, a distinctly Jewish Messiah, or something else entirely? Before we get to Luke and his depictions of Jesus, Bart, hello, how are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing well, thanks. You know, life kind of goes on. And it's one of these things, you know, where I don't know if it's like this for you,

but like I seem like I'm really busy every day and like doing this, this, and then the next day,

I cannot remember what I just did the day before.

I kind of wonder, like, why do I bother?

What's the point of living if, you know, you don't even remember anything?

I don't know.

I don't know the

answer to that. But it's like it's been kind of like that lately. Like I get up in the morning and think, I must have done something yesterday. I cannot remember what it was. I remember I didn't sit down, but what I was doing when I wasn't sitting down, I don't know. And it seemed important at the time. that's the weird thing yeah so yeah So, yeah, so how are you doing? Similarly, honestly,

I find that I eat entire days just doing things like grocery shopping and making sure we have

all the things the kids need to start school again and really important stuff. But then I get to the

end of the day and think, I still have a whole pile of work that I haven't done, that hopefully maybe we'll get done tomorrow or the day after. One day, one day I will get to the bottom of my to-do list, but I don't think any time soon. Yeah, maybe not. I mean, the thing is, when you get kids, it's such a different universe. And then it's funny's funny though because everybody has 24 hours in the

day you know we all talk about how busy we are but you know no one's more busy than another in

other sense i mean so we all have 24 hours and so we all fill it so absolutely okay we should

talk about luke so can we like open with some basic historical information about the Gospel of Luke.

What do we know about who wrote it and roughly when it was written?

Okay, so we call it the Gospel of Luke.

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