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Definition of Gospel of Luke

1. Noun. One of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gospel Of Luke

Literary usage of Gospel of Luke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke by Frédéric Louis Godet (1889)
"From all this, a scientific criticism can only conclude that our Gospel of Luke was in existence before that of ..."

2. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by Sir William Smith (1888)
"... Gospel of Luke, GOSPEL OF. The third Gospel i» •scribed, by the general consent of ancient Christendom, to " the beloved physician," Luke, ..."

3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"Marcion himself never pretended that it was the Gospel of Luke; as Tertullian acknowledges, saying Marcion evangelio mío nullum ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"It is now generally held that essentially the present Gospel of Luke lay before Marcion when the latter compiled his Gospel, while the reverse proposition, ..."

5. Introduction to the Study of the Gospels by Brooke Foss Westcott (1882)
"18) and to St. Luke, soon gave occasion to suppose that he himself used the Gospel of St. Luke. Even Origen speaks of " the Gospel of Luke as that praised ..."

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