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In the century after Luke, one of the great Christian teachers declared that he preferred living testimony to writings. You can’t tell where a book has come from, but you can look witnesses in the eye, and use your judgment about whether to trust them.
A fair guess is probably that he was indeed Luke, one of Paul’s companions, and that he was writing in the 60s and 70s.
10‘What shall we do?’ asked the crowds. 11‘Anyone who has two cloaks’, replied John, ‘should give one to someone who hasn’t got one. The same applies to anyone who has plenty of food.’
Moral reformation which leaves the heart untouched is about as useful as tying bunches of grapes on to a briar-bush.
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27So he began with Moses, and with all the prophets, and explained to them the things about himself throughout the whole Bible.
This passage forms one of the most powerful encouragements to pray for his presence, and sense of guidance, whenever we study the Bible, individually, in pairs or in larger groups. We need to be prepared for him to rebuke our foolish and faithless readings, and to listen for his fresh interpretation. Only with him at our side will our hearts burn within us (verse 32), and lead us to the point where we see him face to face.
45Then he opened their minds to understand the Bible.
‘Repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all nations.’
as anyone who has studied the complicated history of the Middle East, Rwanda or Northern Ireland will know, it is simply impossible to give an account of the conflict in which one side is responsible for all the evil and the other side is a completely innocent victim. The only way forward is the one we all find the hardest at every level: repentance and forgiveness.
