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Acts 2:46, 47 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house...

Acts 5:41, 42 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name...

Amen.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.

Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON LUKE'S GOSPEL.

Luke, to whom this Gospel has been uniformly attributed from the earliest ages of the Christian church, is generally allowed to have been 'the beloved physician' mentioned by Paul, (Col.

Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

;) and as he was the companion of that apostle, in all his labours and sufferings, for many years, (Ac.

Luke 16:12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

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Luke 20:1-6 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel...

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27:1, 2;

28:13-16.

2Ti.

Luke 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

. Phm.

Luke 4:24 And he said, Truly I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

, ) and wrote 'the Acts of the Apostles, ' which conclude with a brief account of Paul's imprisonment at Rome, we may be assured that he had the Apostle's sanction to what he did; and probably this Gospel was written some time before that event, about

A.D.63 or

64, as is generally supposed. He would appear, from Col.

Luke 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you:

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Luke 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

, and his intimate acquaintance with the Greek language, as well as from his Greek name [Loukas, ] to have been of Gentile extraction; and according to Eusebius and others, he was a native of Antioch. But, from the Hebraisms occurring in his writings, and especially from his accurate knowledge of the Jewish rites, ceremonies, and custom, it is highly probable that he was a Jewish proselyte, and afterwards converted to Christianity. Though he may not have been, as some have affirmed, one of the seventy disciples, and an eye-witness of our Saviour's miracles, yet his intercourse with the apostles, and those who were eye-witnesses of the works and ear witnesses of the words of Christ, renders him an unexceptional witness, if considered merely as an historian; and the early and unanimous reception of his Gospel as divinely inspired is sufficient to satisfy every reasonable person.