Luke - How is the priestly nature of Christ reflected in Luke? | Many images of sacrifice and emphasis on teachings and miracles that focus on sanctification |
Luke - What was the source for Luke’s Gospel? | Interviews with many eye-witnesses of the events in Christ’s life |
Luke - What do we learn in Luke that is not mentioned in the other Gospels? | Many details of Christ’s first 30 years of ‘hidden’ life before his three years of public ministry
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John - Why did the Christians of the late first century urge John to write his Gospel? | John wrote to provide important details about Christ that were not covered in the other Gospels |
John - What is the major theme in John’s Gospel? | Jesus as God (the Word or ‘logos’ |
John - Ten of the twenty-one chapters of John are devoted to details on what part of Christ’s life? | Jesus’ Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection |
Acts - What does Luke relate in the Acts of the Apostles? | The major events in the first thirty years of the Church following the Ascension |
Acts - What did Peter’s vision of clean and unclean animals lead him to do? | Peter understood that the Gospel was for all and began receiving gentile converts into the Church |
Acts - What persecutor of the Church became a zealous missionary to the gentiles? | St Paul |
Acts - How did Paul spread the Gospel to most of the eastern Roman Empire? | Paul went on three Missionary Journeys |