DID YOU KNOW?

Luke's Gospel opens with four verses on how the writer worked. That kind of opening is like the openings of what?

The answer

Many Greek histories. Like them, Luke's opening says how he worked and why he wrote (Luke 1:1-4).

Why it’s interesting

He mentions the earlier accounts openly: "many have undertaken to compile a narrative" (Luke 1:1). By his own account, his was not the first.

Scholarly consensus

Learn the Bible.

Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.