His core message was the Kingdom of God:
Luke 4:43New King James Version (NKJV)
43 but He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."
Luke wrote his gospel for Gentiles to show them that Jesus came for all people, not just the Jews, and to emphasize the universal message of salvation.
In Luke 19:41-44, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, foreseeing its destruction due to its rejection of him. This passage highlights Jesus' compassion and sorrow for those who do not recognize him as the Messiah. It relates to the overall message of the Gospel of Luke by emphasizing the importance of recognizing and accepting Jesus as the Savior, and the consequences of rejecting him.
The gospel author who traces Jesus' lineage back to Adam is Luke, in the Gospel of Luke chapter 3.
In Luke's Gospel, Heli was the father of Joseph and (so it was supposed) the paternal grandfather of Jesus. He does not appear in Matthew's Gospel, where the paternal grandfather of Jesus was Jacob.
The most famous parable in the gospel of Luke was The Prodigals Son.
Actually, the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus is not recorded in Luke's gospel but in the Gospel of Matthew. The story can be found in Matthew 2:1-12. Luke's gospel includes the nativity story, but it focuses more on the shepherds who visited Jesus after his birth.
The Gospel of Luke portrays Jesus as a compassionate and inclusive figure who reaches out to the marginalized and emphasizes the importance of love, forgiveness, and social justice.
A:John's Gospel is probably the most spiritual gospel. Luke's Gospel attempts to put the life of Jesus in a historical perspective and is also more concerned with the central message of helping the poor. More than any of the others, Matthew's Gospel seeks to demonstrate that the Old Testament was fulfilled in Jesus. Mark's Gospel is not only the shortest New Testament gospel, it is als the original gospel on which the others were either directly (Matthew, Luke) or indirectly (John) based. Whether or not it offers the best overview, Mark ought to be the gospel that is closest to the real Jesus of Nazareth.
The subject matter in the Gospel of Luke primarily focuses on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It also emphasizes themes of compassion, forgiveness, salvation, and the inclusivity of Jesus' message for all people. Additionally, Luke highlights the role of women, the marginalized, and the oppressed in the ministry of Jesus.
A:King Herod does not play a role in Luke's Gospel. It is only in Matthew's Gospel that he jealously seeks to have Jesus killed, finally ordering the death of the infants under two years old. In Luke's Gospel, it must be Quirinius who wields real power, because he required Joseph to go to Bethlehem for the census.
In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus sent a message by Mary Magdalene for the disciples to meet him in Galilee. However, in the other gospels this appears not to have been the case. Luke's Gospel says that Jesus ascended to heaven near Bethany in Judea, on the same evening as his resurrection. In John's Gospel, Mary Magdalene met the risen Jesus, but not on the road as in Matthew, instead she mistook him for the gardener.Mark's Gospel originally did not even have any appearances of the risen Jesus - the "Long Ending" (verses 16:9-25) being added much later to more or less harmonise this gospel with Matthew and Luke. In the Long Ending, Jesus was received up into heaven after he had spoken to the disciples at a meal, so could not have sent a message for the disciples to meet him in Galilee.
A:According to Luke's Gospel, Jesus was related to John the Baptist. His mother Mary was the cousin of John's mother Elizabeth. There are several reasons to doubt this, including that John's Gospel says that the Baptist did not even know Jesus.