Luke was the only Gentile (non-Jew) writer of the New Testament books, who wrote both this gospel and the Acts. In fact, he also was not one of the twelve disciples of the Lord, or one of the seventy that Jesus Christ had sent for the work of the ministry. Luke was a physician (doctor) as mentioned by the apostle Paul in Colossians 4:14. He was one of Paul’s friends and in fact, both this gospel and the Acts was addressed to a particular person called Theophilus, who was also a Greek.
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The following thirteen epistles are all written by the apostle Paul, and possibly the fourteenth, which is Hebrews. The first of these is the Epistle to the Romans. Although Paul did not establish the church at Rome, he wrote to the Romans, a group of Gentiles who accepted Christ as their Saviour. While the four gospels, especially the Gospel of Mark written to the Romans, all focus on the words and work of Christ, the Epistle to the Romans explores the significance of His death for the world. In the book of Acts, we read about the gospel being preached by the apostles.
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This is an attempt to create a list of the miracles (or signs as they are called in the gospel of John) of the Lord Jesus Christ that are recorded in the Bible. The list will contain the name or title of the miracle and the references found in the gospels. This list is adapted from New Testament Illustrations published by American Bible Society, New York 1966.
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Mark is the second gospel, written by John Mark. He was not one of the twelve disciples. It is the shortest of the four gospels and he was perhaps the youngest writer of the four gospels and it may well have been the earliest gospel that was written.
If we want to benefit from reading and studying any book, we should ask ourselves these five questions that we all would have learned in school – who, what, where, when and why?
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The New Testament in the Bible commences with the four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All these gospels present the Lord Jesus Christ in various characteristics but all the gospels stress and clearly state that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God and God the Son. Even though Matthew presents Christ mainly as the Messiah or King, he still writes and assures us that Jesus is God Himself – the Jehovah of the Old Testament came to earth in the Person of Jesus Christ in the gospels. There are passages in Isaiah and Revelation that show Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ.
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It is very striking and remarkable that the Bible in our hands is structured in such a way that when we look at the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch, or the books of the law, each of the five books have features and characteristics, in which all the other books follow in an amazing order. In the Hebrew Old Testament, the structure is firstly, the first five books of Moses, then the historical and prophetical books, and then the psalms and the writings. The Lord Jesus Christ spoke to His disciples after His resurrection and expounded to them all things concerning Himself from the law of Moses, the prophets and the psalms (Luke 24:44).
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We now come to the Prophetical books, forming a fourth division of the Bible, and the last division of the Old Testament. These books can be further divided into the Major Prophets (Isaiah to Daniel) and the Minor Prophets (Hosea to Malachi). These books give prophecies regarding the judgment of Israel and Judah, then the restoration of Judah, followed by prophecies relating to the destruction of the Gentile nations, and finally prophecies regarding the coming of Christ.
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“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings” (Malachi 4:2). The last book of the Old Testament comes with a stern and serious message and warning for the people who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity in Babylon. Interestingly, it is the last message in the Old Testament to the Jews before the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth, and then God was silent for about 400 years. There was another 400-year period, when the Hebrew people were in Egypt (read Acts 7:6 and Genesis 15:13).
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“And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced”. John 19:37. This verse is found in Zechariah 12:10, a prophecy made long time ago before the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth as a Man and went to the cross. This interesting book is filled with what is called Messianic prophecies – words about the Lord Jesus Christ coming to earth to suffer and also draws on His second coming in His appearing to reign over the world.
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It is interesting that there are three prophetical books along with three historical books that deal with the time of the post-captivity of the tribe of Judah. More interesting is that these three books are at the end of their relevant sections, i.e. the last three historical books, and the last three prophetical books. The three prophetical books are Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, and the historical books are Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. The times of the gentiles commenced when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came and destroyed Jerusalem and took captives back to Babylon. The prophecies of Ezekiel and Daniel most notably, occurred in the time of the Babylonian empire, which was the first of the world empires.
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