Luke the Evangelist was one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Prominent figures in early Christianity such as Jerome and Eusebius later reaffirmed his authorship, although a lack of conclusive evidence as to the identity of the author of the works has led to discussion in scholarly circles, both secular and religious.
Luke, the physician, was a pagan who accompanied Paul on his second and third missionary journeys and was with him during his two Roman captivities.
Paul, also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, and he also founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.
Mark the Evangelist[a] (Koinē Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: Mârkos), also known as John Mark (Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννης Μᾶρκος, romanized: Iōánnēs Mârkos; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ, romanized: Yōḥannān) or Saint Mark, was the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern Bible scholars have concluded that the Gospel of Mark was written by an anonymous author rather than an identifiable historical figure, though the topic remains contentious among experts. According to Church tradition, Mark founded the episcopal see of Alexandria, which was one of the five most important sees of early Christianity. His feast day is celebrated on April 25, and his symbol is the winged lion.
So, Luke’s gospels have a Pauline bias while that of Mark can claim the authority of Peter.
Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Catholic tradition treats Peter as the first bishop of Rome – or pope – and also as the first bishop of Antioch.
Luke also wrote the “Acts of the Apostles.”
Like Mark, Luke wrote in Greek.
He wrote for an official named Theophilus.
He used a variety of sources.
Originally, the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were a single book.
But these were divided by the early Church so as to make it easier to combine the four gospels into a single volume.
Luke wrote his gospel using both the Gospels of Matthew and Mark as his sources but used some Aramaic texts as well.
John the Baptist (c. 6 BC[18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī Yaḥyā) in Islam. He is sometimes alternatively referred to as John the Baptizer.
He identifies the parents of John the Baptist as the priest Zechariah
Zechariah[a] was a Jewish priest mentioned in the New Testament and the Quran and venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36).
and his wife Elizabeth.
Elizabeth[a] was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived and gave birth to John. She is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran churches, in addition to being a highly respected figure in Islam.
The angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah and tells him that a son will be born to him who must be named John.
In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel (/ˈɡeɪbriəl/ GAY-bree-uhl) is an archangel with the power to announce God’s will to mankind. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Quran and the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Many Christian traditions – including Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism – revere Gabriel as a saint.
The name means “Yahweh-is-gracious.”
And the boy should not be allowed to drink wine or alcoholic beverages.
After all, alcohol burns out the brain-cells and makes drinkers stupid and gross.
Six months later, the angel Gabriel appeared to the virgin Mary and announced that she would conceive a son who should be named Yashua (Jesus).
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, and Lutheran churches believe that Mary, as mother of Jesus, is the Mother of God. The Church of the East historically regarded her as Christotokos, a term still used in Assyrian Church of the East liturgy. Other Protestant views on Mary vary, with some holding her to have lesser status. She has the highest position in Islam among all women and is mentioned numerous times in the Quran, including in a chapter named after her. She is also revered in the Baháʼí Faith and the Druze Faith.
Thus, John and Jesus were only six months apart in age.
And both of them were told by their parents of their miraculous births and their godly calling.
John was filled with the Holy Spirit from birth and was coached in religious teachings by his priestly father.
Not ruining his brain by drinking alcohol,
“he lived out in the wilderness until the day he appeared openly to Israel.” (Luk 1:80)
And because he was not a Jew and part of the Temple conspiracy of Jewish rabbis and moneylenders, he found God.
According to Luke 2, the events that he narrates took place during the reign of Caesar Augustus (27 BC to 14 AD).
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire. He reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. The reign of Augustus initiated an imperial cult, as well as an era of imperial peace (the Pax Romana or Pax Augusta) in which the Roman world was largely free of armed conflict. The Principate system of government was established during his reign and lasted until the Crisis of the Third Century.
Caesar had ordered a census of the Roman Empire with the goal of a taxation of the people.
Jesus was born before Herod’s death (4 BC), possibly in 8 or 6 BC.
The timetable of the Christian Era established by Dionysius Exiguus (6th century AD) is the result of false calculation [402] which is why these dates seem at variance with logic.
Dionysius Exiguus (Latin for “Dionysius the Humble”; Greek: Διονύσιος; c. 470 – c. 544) was a 6th-century Eastern Roman monk born in Scythia Minor. He was a member of a community of Scythian monks concentrated in Tomis (present-day Constanța, Romania), the major city of Scythia Minor. Dionysius is best known as the inventor of Anno Domini (AD) dating, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian calendar and the (Christianized) Julian calendar. Almost all churches adopted his computus for the dates of Easter.
Because of the census, everyone went to his own town to be registered.
“So, Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee and traveled up to Judaea to the town of David called Bethlehem, since he was of David’s House and line, in order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.” (Luk 2: 4-5)
When Jesus was born,
angels appeared to some shepherds and the prophets Simeon
Simeon (Greek: Συμεών) at the Temple is the “just and devout” man of Jerusalem who, according to Luke 2:25–35, met Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as they entered the Temple to fulfill the requirements of the Law of Moses on the 40th day from Jesus’ birth, i.e. the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. According to the Biblical account, the Holy Spirit visited Simeon and revealed to him that he would not die until he had seen the Christ of God. Upon taking Jesus into his arms, he uttered a prayer which is still used liturgically as the Latin Nunc dimittis in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches and gave a prophecy alluding to the Crucifixion of Jesus.
and the prophetess, Anna, who also recognized the baby Jesus as the Messiah.
Jesus was raised in Nazareth where he grew up being told by everyone that he was the son of God. So, he took on the responsibility of acquiring wisdom and in learning the ways of holiness at an early age.
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (/taɪˈbɪəriəs/ ty-BEER-ee-əs; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37. He succeeded his stepfather Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC to Roman politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his wife, Livia Drusilla. In 38 BC, Tiberius’s mother divorced his father and married Augustus. Following the untimely deaths of Augustus’s two grandsons and adopted heirs, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Tiberius was designated Augustus’s successor. Prior to this, Tiberius had proved himself an able diplomat and one of the most successful Roman generals: his conquests of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and (temporarily) parts of Germania laid the foundations for the empire’s northern frontier.
Luke begins the preaching of John the Baptist at:
“the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar’s reign, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea.” (Luk 3:1)
This actual date would be about 28 AD, when Jesus was at least 33 years old or possibly 35 or 36 depending on how the dates are calculated. [403]
John preached repentance of sins to the thoroughly greedy and dishonest Jews.
Since the Jews were so ruthlessly selfish, he wanted them to share food and clothing with those in need.
And because so many of them were corrupt tax collectors, he wanted them to collect fair taxes without extortion.
His preaching of truth and kindness was such that some people thought that he was the expected Christ.
But he told them that:
“I baptize you with water, but someone is coming, someone who is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandals; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Luk 3:16)
Again, John and Jesus were cousins of about the same age, born under miraculous circumstances from among close relatives who knew each other, living within walking distance of each other, so it is impossible that they had not been acquainted since childhood.
After John baptized Jesus, a voice came from heaven,
“You are my Son, the Beloved; my favor rests on you.”
Luke lists the alleged genealogy of Jesus all the way back through David and Abraham to Adam.
And since Jesus was descended from Adam, he was therefore the Son of God.
But it has been very much overlooked for the past two thousand plus years, that this genealogy also “proves” that all men and women are likewise the children of God since, according to the mythology of the Hebrews, everybody is descended from Adam.
But Luke was under the influence of the “leaven of the Pharisees” through Saul of Tarsus (a.k.a. Paul).
Since Luke had been a pagan, he would be more easily deceived by Paul than those who were already knowledgeable in the Hebrew Bible.
So, this mythical “genealogy” was added by Luke and that lying Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus, as a “proof” that Jesus was descended from David and was thus Son of God, both important to Paul’s line of subversion, but not at all important to Jesus.
The temptations in the wilderness must be explained in the spiritual sense for a modern reader to understand it.
Certainly, the description of Luke 4:1-13, is literally true.
Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness.
But what seeker of God is not?
Luke says that after he was baptized by John,
“filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being tempted by the devil for forty days.” (Luk 4:1-2)
Again, the Holy Spirit is not some ghostly apparition that preceded Jesus like a waif.
The Holy Spirit is the intrinsic Qi of every human being that is realized and perceived when one looks for it and cultivates its power.
It is the basic power and aura of one’s soul.
And the energy that animates one’s body.
It is a part of yourself.
So, surrounded and permeated by the aura of his Holy Spirit, Jesus wandered out into the wilderness.
It is a wonderful thing to be able to sense and direct your own spirit to perform your will.
Jesus no doubt enjoyed the great aura of spirit that buoyed him up and surrounded him with joyful energy as he walked over the stones as lightly as a feather.
It is a fantastic feeling of harmony and bliss to have the Qi suffuse your body and surround you with peace and contentment and power.
Jesus wandered in bliss into the wilderness without food for forty days.
“During that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry.” (Luk 4:2)
A word about fasting should be said.
People who have never fasted have an uneasy fear of going hungry.
The pudgy people of modern times have never known hunger, so they fear the unknown.
In fact, our bodies are well adapted to going without food for long periods of time.
We gain weight and grow layers of fat during times of plenty; and we burn our fat reserves during food shortages.
The only time one feels discomfort, when the stomach grumbles and you feel a bit hungry, is on the first day of a fast.
Drinking water solves the complaints of the stomach.
After the first day of a fast, one does not feel hungry because the body has shifted into the fasting mode and has begun to draw its energy from the fat cells.
There are records of long fasts.
One woman is recorded to have gone a full year without food while drinking only water.
Water is necessary during a fast in order to allow your internal biology to wash away waste products and to keep you hydrated.
Religious adepts often practice fasting, along with prayer and meditation, because the Mind becomes clear and the spirit bright, as the body’s pollutants are washed away.
After forty days of fasting, when Jesus’ spirit was bright and his soul jubilant, the Devil began tempting him.
One of the aspects of Luke 4 that has been very much forgotten all of these past millennia, is that the Devil is a liar.
Thus, many people who have read Luke 4, have actually been deceived by this important oversight.
The Devil showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and said to him that he would give Jesus all of the worldly power and glory:
“for it has been committed to me, and I give it to anyone I choose.”
Readers for the past 2,000 years have actually believed the Devil and forgotten that the Devil is a liar.
Neither the kingdoms of the world nor anything else has been given to the Devil.
This evil creature deceives and makes claims that are pure lies.
He is the God of Liars.
Just like the Jews and Muslims, the Devil will tell you the truth if truth can help him deceive you.
But there is nothing on this earth or within the starry skies that belongs to the Devil.
He is a liar.
Like a spiritual parasite, his only abode is in the mind and heart of Man – if we let him dwell there.
After overcoming the temptation of the Evil One, Jesus began his ministry:
“with the power of the Spirit within him.” (Luk 4:14)
He went first to his hometown of Nazareth and preached wisdom to them.
But he also told them that no healing or miracles would be theirs.
This was probably because of all of the chiding and insults that he had endured his entire life from those mocking Jews.
After all, he was born to a virgin but raised with four brothers and couple of sisters in Joseph’s family.
So, not only was he the butt of jokes regarding his virgin birth but subjected to insults about the virtues of his mother, Mary, slanders which the malicious Jews perpetuate in their Babylonian Talmud and their private conversations even today.
So, he told them that:
“no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.” (Luk 4:24)
Typically, the Jews went into a self-righteous rage and tried to kill him by tossing him off a cliff. (Luk 4:29)
“But he slipped through the crowd and walked away.” (Luk 4: 30)
The ability to use your Qi to avoid attack and to slip through the grasping hands of attackers, is likewise practiced in the modern Chinese martial art of Tai Chi Chuan and Baguazhang and the Japanese art of Aikido, where your Qi and Mind avoids the physical assaults of your foes.
It isn’t a miracle, it’s just a skill one attains when you find your Holy Spirit, your Qi.
In Luke 6, during his healing of the people,
“everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.” (Luk 6:19)
Thus, Luke is saying that the Holy Spirit of Jesus, his Qi, was so great that when others touched him and received some of his power, they were cured.
But their own faith also was necessary.
There is a lot of confusion among the modern aggressive types of people who consider the teaching of Jesus to be weakness.
They say that only:
“might makes right”
and that those who follow Christian teachings are weaklings and fools.
But they are overlooking the fact that Jesus taught during a time of extreme cruelty and brutality, where people were flogged and tortured and crucified and enslaved for life in mines and behind the oars of ships with no reprieve or clemency possible until they died.
It was a time when the:
“revenge of the Jews”
was a basic part of the Jewish Law – lex talionis –
“an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
Of course, modern Christians who believe that they should be weak and let their demonic enemies such as the Jews and Muslims betray and murder them, are real fools.
Jesus taught to be happy if you are poor. (Luk 6:20-21)
But the happiness that he spoke of is in the heart and exists regardless of one’s wealth.
The detractors of Christianity think that Jesus promoted poverty when, in fact, he promoted the great wealth that one finds within themselves when they are pure and blameless – regardless of how much wealth they possess.
Even a rich man can find this happiness, if he is pure of heart and looks for it within himself.
Conversely, the atheists and Jews misunderstand what Jesus taught about wealth.
A rich man has little chance of getting into heaven not because he has riches but because of the evil and dishonest deeds that the rich often do in order to acquire their wealth.
As you now know from reading The Sumerian Swindle, those who make money with such methods can never be honest people.
It is not his gold that pulls a rich man into Hell; it is the evil he did to get that gold.
It is the giving away of his holy spirit in exchange for material matter that makes his soul heavy and his spirit less buoyant and weak.
It is the spiritual grasping and attachment to the material gold that weights him down, allowing gravity to pull his soul into the fires at the center of the earth.
Bankers and politicians and financiers are basically dishonest people because they tell lies and misrepresent their goods in order to make profits.
It is these:
- lies
- slanders
- cheating
- thieving
and oppression of other people that keeps them out of Heaven and chained in Hell, not the wealth that they have acquired.
The world is just one planet orbiting in the vacuum of space.
Everything on Earth is limited.
So, those who take more than they need, leave less for others.
Such people cannot escape the pull of gravity that drags their souls down into the fiery darkness at the center of the earth unless they let go of wealth and its enslaving spiritual chains such as greed and avarice.
Such deluded idiots as Friedrich Nietzsche and other materialists of his ilk, claim that Jesus was wrong to teach:
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly.
To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too; to the man who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic.
Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from the man who robs you.” (Luk 6:27-31)
Much of the misunderstanding of this teaching by both Christians and their detractors comes from two things – the spiritual dimension and the historical situation.
From the spiritual dimension, Jesus was teaching the great freedom and happiness that a person receives when he or she is not consumed by hatred or chained to greed.
Love is expressed through giving, not by taking.
From the historical situation of his time, who was this message given to?
Jesus was preaching to the Jews who were both religiously and culturally attuned to a malicious hatred and vengeance against anyone who insulted, assaulted or took a profit from them.
The Jews have a law that decrees that anyone who causes them to lose money, must be killed! [404]
That’s how serious the Jews are about making money!
- Blood feuds
- murders
- beatings
and revenge were part and parcel of the Semitic Jews as well as of the Semitic Cultures of Arabia.
In general, all Semites are among the lower races of Mankind.
But because of their lies, the Jews pretend to be better than they are.
But their actions speak louder than their words.
Jesus was teaching Jews to be better people; he was not teaching Christians to be supine wimps who should meekly allow:
- thieves
- bullies
- Jews
or Muslims to take advantage of their kindness.
That is the wrong idea among modern Christians.
His message was directed to a specific type of people who lived during a more brutal time.
Jesus was teaching:
- ruthless
- greedy
- violent
Jews to refrain from their evil habits and to learn:
- kindness
- compassion
- peace
and the ways of true religion.
This is what the atheists, the nay-sayers as well as most Christians misunderstand about this teaching.
A modern Christian should learn Tai Chi Chuan or Baguazhang or Hsing-I Chuan or Aiki-jujutsu or Jujitsu or Filipino Sticks or Boxing or Fencing and beat the hell out of any Jew or Muslim who gives you problems.
Or if you don’t want to beat up on the Jews and Muslims, then at least shoot them.
They are your deadly enemies by their own choice.
Jesus went on to heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons.
When Jesus asked his disciples who the people said that he is, Peter said,
“The Christ of God.” (Luk 9:20)
Jesus said,
“Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone who rejects you rejects me, and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.” (Luk 10:16)
What this means is that Jesus accepted his fate, his karma, his place in this world and in the Universe.
The entire Totality and Synchronicity of this world had reached the point where the Christ had to appear, just as when water reaches the freezing point, ice crystals appear or when wood reaches the heat of combustion, flames appear.
Jesus accepted who he was and what his mission had to be, for the sake of Mankind and to destroy the devils of Judaism.
Judaism, the Biggest Lie Ever Told by the world’s foremost liars and deceivers!
The Oneness of the Word identifies not only Truth with Universality, but it also identifies God with Creation.
By this, do not think in terms either of pantheism or of duality.
Look at it this way.
God created the Universe so everything in the Universe is a holy manifestation of God.
Those who accept the holiness of creation, accept the holiness of god.
The wine and bread of the eucharist are creations of God.
When Jesus, who identified himself with God in Oneness, offers the bread and wine as his body and blood, he is offering the body and blood of God.
Therefore, the body and blood of God is the same as his own body and blood.
Do you understand the logic of this and its manifesting awareness?
No?
Well, it didn’t make any sense to the Jews and early Christians, either.
In Luke 11, the Lord’s Prayer is again given.
Once again, the prayer indicates that the word “sin” is identical with “debt.”
The idea that the Jews invented, is that there is a perpetual debt that we all owe to God which can only be repaid by giving the Jewish priests barbeques and money.
Jesus condemned the Pharisee Jews:
“Alas for you Pharisees who like taking the seats of honor in the synagogues and being greeted obsequiously in the market squares!
Alas for you, because you are like the unmarked tombs that men walk on without knowing it!” (Luk 11:43-44)
Jesus described the beady-eyed evil that the Jews exhibit.
You can see those creatures to this day, pretending to be wise and holy rabbis.
But the darkness in their beady, little, black eyes betrays their truly dark and evil spirits.
Most Christians exhibit the bright inner light of their holy spirit in the enlightenment of their eyes.
Jesus told the Pharisee Jews,
“The lamp of your body is your eye.
When your eye is sound, your whole body too is filled with light; but when it is diseased your body too will be all darkness.
See to it then, that the light inside you is not darkness.
If, therefore, your whole body is filled with light, and no trace of darkness, it will be light entirely, as when the lamp shines on you with its rays.” (Luk 11:34-36)
But look into the eyes of a Jewish rabbi or a Muslim cleric and you will see only darkness and ignorance there.
Once again, Jesus warned against the leaven of the Pharisees when he says:
“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees – that is, their hypocrisy.” (Luk 12:1)
This is the same warning Jesus gave in Matthew 16:6 and 16:12.
“Keep your eyes open and be on your guard against the yeast [leaven] of the Pharisees and Saducees.”
Also, in Mark 8:15:
“Then he gave them this warning,
‘Keep your eyes open; be on your guard against the yeast [leavening] of the Pharisees….’”
So, here we have the exact same warning in all three gospels of:
- Matthew
- Mark
- Luke
Yet, after Jesus ascends what happens?
Along comes the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus to proclaim himself an actual disciple!
And many were deceived by his “leaven of the Pharisees.”
Jesus spoke against the Pharisee Jews’ desire to always be honored and to have the most exalted place in society. (Luk 14:7-11)
But Jesus taught Christians to be humble and choose for themselves the least prestigious place.
He taught them that for all their self-aggrandizement and self-important arrogance, the Jews would be like the guests who refused the invitation to a banquet.
Even the crippled, the blind and the lame would get into heaven, but not the Jews. (Luk 14:15-24)
After preaching with wisdom:
“The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and laughed at him.
He said to them,
‘You are the very ones who pass yourselves off as virtuous in people’s sight, but God knows your hearts.
For what is thought highly of by men, is loathsome in the sight of God.’” (Luk 16:14-15)
Jesus never referred to himself as the Son of God.
That is what others called him, especially that lying Jew, Saul of Tarsus. (Luk 17:22)
Jesus called those who died and were resurrected in heaven as the Sons of God:
“because they can no longer die, for they are the same as angels, and being children of the resurrection they are sons of God.” (Luk 20:36)
Jesus warned of the hypocritical moneylenders.
“Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes and love to be greeted obsequiously in the market squares, to take the front seats in the synagogues and the place of honor at banquets, who swallow the property of widows, while making a show of lengthy prayers.
The more severe will be the sentence they receive.” (Luk 20: 46-47)
He was speaking of the merchants and moneylenders who, even today, remain unhung.
Note once again that Luke does not record a centurion spearing Jesus on the cross.
After Jesus was crucified,
“Peter, however, went running to the tomb.
He bent down and saw the binding cloths but nothing else; he then went back home, amazed at what had happened.” (Luk 24:12)
So ends the Gospel of Luke.