5 The Gospel according to Luke

The Gospel according to Luke

Like Matthew, Luke has used Mark’s Gospel in composing his narrative, but whereas Matthew reproduces almost all of Mark, Luke reprocesses only about half of it.1 Like Matthew, Luke augments the core story of Jesus with a birth and infancy narrative and with post-resurrection appearances, but he goes further than Matthew by writing a second volume, the Acts of the Apostles, in which he narrates the birth and expansion of the church…

Taken from Parallel Lives of Jesus by Edward Adams