Questions about Luke
66 honest questions people ask about Luke, each answered from the verses. In Favor, they come up right where they arise as you read.
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- John says, "He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire" (3:16). What is the fire?
- John told the tax collectors and the soldiers what to do. Did he tell them to give up their work?
- Luke tells that Herod "shut up John in prison" (3:20), and then tells of Jesus's baptism (3:21). Who baptized Jesus in Luke?
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- "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" (12:14). Why did Jesus answer the man this way?
- "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?" (12:41). What was Jesus's answer?
- "I came to throw fire on the earth" (12:49), and "I have a baptism to be baptized with" (12:50). What are the fire and the baptism?
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- Jesus says that anyone who comes to him "and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple" (14:26). What does he mean?
- In the story, the lord says, "compel them to come in" (14:23). What does he mean, and who are they?
- Who are the man who made the great supper, the guests who made excuses, and those who were brought in?
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- Jesus says, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says" (18:6). Is God like that judge?
- Jesus asks whether God will avenge his chosen ones, "and yet he exercises patience with them?" (18:7), and says, "he will avenge them quickly" (18:8). How do those fit together?
- Why did the tax collector go down to his house justified, "rather than the other" (18:14)?
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- Who are the nobleman, the servants and the citizens in the story Jesus tells (19:12-27)?
- "But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me" (19:27). What does it mean?
- Weeping over the city, Jesus says, "For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you" (19:43). When did he mean, and what was he speaking of?
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- Jesus says, "They will cause some of you to be put to death" (21:16), and then, "not a hair of your head will perish" (21:18). How can both be true?
- "Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer" (21:14). Does that mean you should never prepare what to say about your faith?
- What are "the times of the Gentiles" (21:24)?
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