Will Vaus

Today, we are continuing our journey along Route 66, and we are stopping off to visit the Gospel of Luke…   AUTHOR   The author’s name does not appear in the book, but much unmistakable evidence points to Luke, the companion of Paul. This Gospel is the first of a two-part work which includes the book of Acts. The language and structure of both books indicate the same author. Both are addressed to the same person, Theophilus, and the second volume refers to the first. (See Acts 1:1.)   Certain sections in the book of Acts use the pronoun “we”, indicating that the author was with Paul when the events described took place. By process of elimination Luke becomes the most likely candidate. Luke’s authorship is supported by the testimony of the Muratorian Canon written in AD 170 and the works of Irenaeus, written around AD 180.   So, what was this author like? We may, in fact, know more about Luke than any of the other Gospel authors. When you read this Gospel, you see tha...

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  Today, we are continuing our journey along Route 66, and we are stopping off to visit the Gospel of Mark…   AUTHOR   Who was Mark?   The Gospel itself does not contain any direct claim of authorship. None of the Gospels originally had a title. “The earliest evidence of Markan authorship is set forth by Papias (c. 60-130), the bishop of Hieropolis in Phrygia, in the vicinity of the New Testament churches of Colossae and Laodicea [in what is now modern-day Turkey]. We find this testimony in a primitive Christian fragment preserved by Eusebius” [1]  who was an early church historian. Papias writes,  “ Mark, who was Peter’s interpreter, wrote down accurately, though not in order, all that he recollected of what Christ had said or done.” [2]   This view of Markan authorship of this Gospel was shared by nearly everyone in the early church. [3]  Furthermore, it fits with the fact that Peter refers to Mark as his son in the faith in 1 Peter 5:13.  ...