Gospel of Luke Quotes

According to the Gospel of Luke, shepherds were watching their flocks at night at the time Jesus was born. This detail -- the only clue in the Gospels about the timing of the birth [of Jesus Christ] -- suggests that Jesus' birthday was not in the winter, as shepherds would not have been watching their flocks only during the lambing season in the spring. In the colder months the sheep probably would have been corralled.

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.