Luke

Luke is commonly thought of as not being Jewish, but that is a Myth. The Gospel of Luke has more Hebraisms than any other Book in the New Testament. In the Book of Acts, Luke uses an expression that was only used by rabbis. Reverend Arnold Gause, a Bible scholar with a PhD in Greek, theorizes that Luke was a rabbi who fell on hard times and became a bond servant to some very wealthy person who, recognizing Luke’s powerful intellect, had him trained to be his personal physician. Somehow, Luke later obtained his freedom. In the first century, nearly every physician was a personal physician to some very wealthy individual.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.