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Get Your Bearings in Luke

September 10, 2025 By Peter Krol

Studying the gospel of Luke can be a challenge because it’s such a long and windy book. I’ve written an interpretive overview of the book, but here is another relatively brief overview of the book that will help you get your bearings.

The longest book in the New Testament is the Third Gospel, the account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus that is attributed to a man called Luke. Though it is like the other canonical Gospels in many ways, there are nevertheless several details about Jesus’s life and ministry found only in the Gospel of Luke and several points of emphasis unique to his account. For those less familiar with this New Testament book—and even for those who are—let me offer this brief introduction, survey, and summary of the Gospel of Luke.

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