visionary
4th March 2008, 01:21 AM
Luke was a Gentile, the only Gentile writer in the New Testament. There's nothing in his gospel that a Gentile can't grasp. He habitually gives Hebrew words in their Greek equivalent so that a Gentile can understand. "Simon the Cananaean" becomes "Simon the Zealot." Calvary isn't called by its Hebrew name, " Golgotha ", but by its Greek name, "Kranion." (" Golgotha " and "Kranion" both mean "the place of a skull.") Luke never uses the Jewish term "Rabbi" of Jesus, but always a Greek term meaning "Master." In tracing the descent of Jesus he follows it back not to Abraham, the foreparent of Jews (as Matthew does), but to Adam, the foreparent of all humans.