The Gospel of Luke is the first volume of Luke-Acts, which was composed by "Luke the beloved physician," a traveling companion of St. Paul (Col 4:14). The Gentile St. Luke wrote his work for ...

• Elizabeth is one of the last faithful voices of the Old Covenant, and John is its final prophet (Malachi 4:5–6). Mary is the first bearer of the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31), and Jesus is the New ...

“What does it mean to be a prophet?” This is the challenge preachers must wrestle with and present to their congregations over and over, says Luke Timothy Johnson, a renowned Scripture scholar, ...

God communicated His plan through a divine messenger (Gabriel), and Mary's response of self-surrender made possible God's ...

What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...