Discipleship In Luke's Gospel Research Paper

Mark’s gospel begins with Jesus’ ministry, leads up to, and ends with His crucifixion. The gospel stresses the importance of Jesus’ divinity and discipleship. There are different examples throughout the gospel of this. Discipleship is shown on Mark’s gospel when Jesus first calls his disciples to repent and believe. In chapter two verses twelve to seventeen Jesus calls sinners to repentance when he has supper with tax collectors. This calls the sinners to follow Him. The best example of discipleship is in chapter eight verse thirty-four when Jesus says take up your cross and follow me. He is asking people to live as He does and commit their whole lives to Him even if it means dying in order to deliver God’s message. He says whoever loses their

I chose to read The Gospel of Luke for my project. It is said that The Gospel of Luke was written somewhere between 80 CE - 90 CE. The Gospel of Luke was written for Theophilus, who was called “Friend of God”. But The Gospel was also written for a wider audience, including converts and potential converts.

It seems like that in today’s world the rich look down on the poor and the poor think that the rich are stuck up. This message is set perfectly clear in Luke, and it takes very little to no interpretation needed to see what is trying to be said. In the Gospel of Luke, at the time that it was written, Jesus was already known to be powerful, so when He was born in a barn (Luke 2:7) it started the connection with the poor, also when the Shepard’s showed up to meet Jesus when He was born (Luke 2:16), with no gifts it also showed this connection to the poor. Then later on in the Gospel it can be seen that Jesus does go to the rich to help them, but He also goes to help those who are less fortunate then most (Luke 7:11-17). It is little things like this that keeps the central theme of Jesus is for everyone alive and true. It is possible that if the rich treat the poor better or the poor treat the rich better, then the in the long run both groups would see each other equally. So if when Luke is being read, this message could be understood, accepted, and applied to everyone’s lives, then everybody would be on the same level when it comes to Jesus. Then Christians would be able to understand that, as stated so many times already, Jesus is for everyone and then live among one another

Luke the Evangelist is quoted saying, “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” My door opened specifically at the age of five. When I was young, I was consistently at the doctor’s office or the hospital or the ER. The medical history is colorful and still progressing. However, the sicknesses I endured have assisted in shaping my personality and outlook as well as given insight on my future plans.

Matthew chapter five is a sermon by Jesus. It tells us what perspective we ought to have in dealings with each other and with our attitude. Those who are weak shall be strong, and those who mourn shall be comforted tell of positive actions or humility being rewarded. Jesus goes through a list of these, exalting the poor and the weak. Mt. 5:17-20 is between the first section of what actions are righteous and before the section of what seem to be his own version of commandments relative to the law. It says that all shall be done and judged through and by him. So he gave a perspective on the humble and then judged the law. He tells people to be righteous and then tells them the manner in which to

The day before Good Friday on The Colbert Report Bart Ehrman attempted to demonstrate that the Gospels of Mark and Luke stand in hopeless contradictions to one another with respect to the death of Jesus Christ.[1] Ironically, Tom Krattenmaker notes Ehrman’s claims on this same issue in USA Today on April 13th, 2009.[2] Ehrman makes the following charge: “In Mark’s Gospel, for example, Jesus goes to His death in deep agony, over what’s happening to him, and doesn’t seem to understand why it’s happening to Him.” Conversely, says, Ehrman, “When you read Luke’s Gospel, He’s not in agony at all.”[3]

With that action, Mark was able to stress the importance of the fact that Jesus was able to get rid of demons. Helping the Gentile, lead to the idea that the outsiders were capable of receiving help too. Mark made prominent the idea that the "insiders" ended up being the outsider and vice

The Gospel of Luke has many important literary themes. One of the most significant being the equality of women and femininity. Women were prominent in Luke's portrayal of Jesus' life. Luke was one of two Gospels, out of the four, to include Jesus’ birth. He embraced the role of women and included many focuses of them in his writing. Women were exemplified as good examples, witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus, and were healed by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

The Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John all wrote about Jesus differently because of when they were written. The Gospel of Mark, written during 70 CE, portrayed Jesus as a suffering servant, apocalyptic preacher, and miracle worker (Frigge, 163). Mark was written when the second temple had fallen, and the Romans were in complete control. Seen as being closely related to Saint Paul, Mark was assumed to have lived to see when Nero persecuted the Christians, especially the disciples Paul, Peter, and James (Frigge, 163). With Mark’s gospel, he wrote about not only Jesus’s passion story and death but also, the miracles he performed and the way he interacted with his disciples (Frigge, 164). Mark wrote Jesus as the authoritative son of God

The Nature of Discipleship According to Mark's Gospel Discipleship is usually thought of as following Jesus, being a preacher and a teacher. Somebody who believes in something, or who believes in someone, and leaves everything behind them to try to make others believe the same is my personal belief of a disciple. In actual fact, the Old Testament word 'Talmid' is a 'learner', and more obviously in the New Testament, a 'Diskipolos' is a 'follower'. The other important area of discipleship is serving others. When a disciple is healing a person, they are serving them, as he serving Jesus and God.

The principles of discipleship can be found throughout the Bible. One of the ultimate goals of discipleship is to become more Christ like which makes Jesus's life and grace an excellent basis for discipleship. Jesus invested in twelve men, the first Disciples, and entrusted them to continue the process. Peter, James, and John were a part of Christ's inner circle and he fostered and encouraged an exalted spiritual life and growth in these three. Paul was a Pharisee who was murdering Christians and then his life was transformed and he became an apostle. He gave his life over to God's purpose not only in a broad perspective, bringing the Gospel to the Gentiles, but also personal. Timothy was a disciple of Paul; Paul was personally involved in Timothy's life. The Great Commission commands the Disciples, in Matthew 28:19, to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit". The Disciples followed the Great Commission and Christianity spread. Believers are meant to follow the

The setting as described by both Mark and Matthew is very similar. In a way these two authors are reiterating each other’s stories. In doing so it leads one to conclude that either one is echoing the other, or both are quoting the same source. In contrast Luke gives this parable in a different setting. He infers Christ was talking to a great crowd without mentioning specifically where this was told. While Mark and Matthew make it a point to account for the setting by creating a vivid picture of where Jesus was as he told the story to the masses.

When the Gospel of Luke was being written around 80 AD, the Gospel of Mark had existed for at least ten years. Luke’s gospel worked to synthesize this older gospel with, most likely, a Sayings Gospel of which no written copies exist today. However, the Gospel of Luke does more than merely add a few more parables to the story of Jesus. Luke’s revision of the Gospel of Mark depicts Jesus as a prophet like the ancient prophets of Israel. Luke changes Mark’s pericope of Jesus teaching in Nazareth to present Jesus as the fulfillment of the words spoken by the prophet Isaiah.

Luke and Acts tells the story of what Jesus did and taught during his ministry, first in his earthly life and then as the exalted Christ and Lord through his disciples. This essay will outline the various titles Luke used to portray or described Jesus in his two-volume narrative, in doing this we hope to get a better understanding and a complete picture of who Jesus was. Luke in his two volume work described Jesus in numerous ways and I am only going to be discussing four which referred to him as Christ, Lord, Prophet and Savior. The main Christological themes that appear in Luke-Acts highlighted and emphasised on the concept of the “Lord 's Christ”, meaning the coming ruler of God 's people, who will serve as their Savior and performing prophetic work [2 pg. 123-143]. Moreover, Jesus’s role was not assumed on his own initiative, but rather it was the work of God. Thus we can say that God’s work and plans were at the center of the Book of Acts and Luke’s gospel [1 pg 22].

Each of the four Gospels contains points in ecclesiology. In the Great Commission, Jesus’ last instruction to the Apostles is to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching people (Matthew 28:19-20). For Jesus’ mission to continue and for his Church to grow, discipleship is necessary. Discipleship is a prominent theme in all four Gospels, for purposes of this essay, only the Gospels of John and Luke-Acts will be analyzed. The similarities regarding discipleship in these Gospels include images of the net and fishing, and the sheep/shepherd/sheepfold. The differences include the preparing of the Twelve to carry on Jesus' ministry in Luke, and service to the community and passing of authority in John's Gospel.