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Luke 1:5-13
Luke emphasizes that Jesus’s story is rooted in the story of God’s earlier acts for his people. Luke’s…
Born in Bethlehem (Luke 2:4)
The place where Jesus may have been born. Early tradition may have preserved the right site for Jesus’s…
Jesus and the shepherds—Luke 2:1-14
The elite initially ignored him. God chose to reveal him to the nobodies of the day. Because God…
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
This is probably very close to the original site of Jesus’s birth. The tradition of the site was…
Luke’s Gospel in one hour
A brief introduction to and survey of some key themes in Luke’s Gospel:
Swaddling clothes—Luke 2:7
“She wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a place for animals, because there was no…