Barclay's Guide to the New Testament

faith-and-doubt

• Mark is the nearest approach we will ever possess to an eyewitness account of the life of Jesus.

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• Luke's gospel is specially the gospel of prayer. At all the great moments of his life, Luke shows us Jesus at prayer.

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• The Greeks had been occupied by the contrast between the real and the unreal, things that exist in time and things that are eternal.

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education-and-formation

• Luke claims that his work is the product of the most careful research. His opportunities were ample and his sources must have been good.

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• Paul's letters were not systematic arguments written in peace and silence; he wrote to meet an immediate situation in Corinth, Galatia, or Philippi.

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obedience-and-authority

• A Greek confronted Matthew's gospel would find genealogies unintelligible and the Messiah a term never heard — must Greeks be compelled to become Jews first?

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