hello everyone welcome back to our class um I'm going to do the last part of my lecture on the Gospel of Luke and proceed to do the Acts of the Apostles okay so I didn't get to discuss the word the expression Po in the Gospel of Luke so yeah all to that okay so um until last time I've I used uh the Blue Letter Bible and it's pretty okay it has a lot of nice features that you see here uh you can choose your Bible oh before that I forgot to mention this it's actually my
second time recording this uh I tried this uh couple of days ago and the app I've been using failed me which never happened before but it did happen so um again I want to just emphasize that this website has a lot of good resources just come here and enter any word you want to learn about and there are a lot of uh useful resources like dictionary articles and U and uh yeah even videos right so like that so if you quote these resources these articles and dictionary entries they count as an academic resource okay that
you have to use uh when you write the short essay and the long like final essay okay uh so until last lecture I used the blue little bible this website and it's pretty okay and it's really yeah it has a lot of uh good features but today I want to use a a different website uh with that has a lot uh more features um one of the reasons to use uh this one that I'm going to show you is because it has better references like we are the like dictionar the grou dictionary um so let
me just move there and show you how to use this website called Step B Step by by the way the the name step stands for scripture tools for every person so everything here is completely free which is amazing on the top of the page you have these menu options and if you click the three dot uh icon here you can see that they provide video uh in instructions and written instructions and there are uh FAQ and other useful functions so you can just uh explore these later by yourself and first thing when you come to
this website this is what you see and first thing you need to do is set your Bible uh translations so click this and the default is the ESB I do not recommend the ESB for this uh class I recommend the nasb 2020 which is well known for its literal translation of the Bible they tried really hard to convey the original wording so that's useful and you can uh I need you to use Ancient versions and it uh of this website offers he Hebrew translations Greek translation Greek texts and Coptic Latin and Syria which is amazing
even if you don't know Hebrew or Greek it's it's it's fine I'm going to show you how to use these so choose SPG this one the so the it it is the Greek New Testament uh uh made by the Society of biblical literature it's actually done by one amazing scholar he's really well known for this thing text criticism but anyways choose this one and then hit update display order this one and you can choose multiple uh translations and you can move uh the the order of those texts and of course you want to use an
English translation on top and uh if you're done click update display order and then move to the next one here and go any book to the any book yeah now we have uh as we have said we have nasb 2020 on top and the spfg uh next to it and and if you click this thing this icon here you can change the layout so if you like this just leave it uh but if you want to try the Interlinear View and you can just try it oh you see the changes and maybe you you'd like
this one better right yeah one translation uh like English translation on one side and Greek on the other side uh but I'm going to go with this default version and you can explore these different options by yourself so when you hover over these words it the corresponding uh Greek words are highlighted which is amazing so even if you don't know Greek you can see you know what word is behind it and if you click it uh on the right side here you have a lot of information right and this one the lsj dictionary three dictionary
is is much much better yeah it's it's much better than any of those Greek dictionaries available uh on this website so that's one good reason to use step Bible but since as you can see this website has a lot of features I didn't uh start with this website um but uh yeah I mean it's a matter uh your choice or preference um yeah if you are if you like this website better and if if you get to know use these uh for this class and Beyond this class i' happy be really happy okay and then
uh what we want to do is to search up the word poor within the Gospel of Luke I want to know that how do you do that using you you want to use the search function here just click it and uh you need to set the range the default is the entire Bible as you can see from Genesis to re ation click it and you can customize your search limits like it can be a section like this the class POS and X you can choose multiple multiple sections just anywhere you can choose individual books like
that uh but I want to know the occurrences of the word for in look so that's what I want to do and then hit update search range so now you see it is updated and then enter your word for in this case and you see I have activated the advance search option here it's turned on you turn it off uh it does what it says you know you see the examples here but I need you to use the Advan sech option so turn it on uh and just leave it there and then hit the search
button so you have a lot of options here the most useful one for us now is this one Greek words meaning the word you typed in right and there are several words in Greek that mean po or that could be translated as four right and there are more than these uh and you can type in uh other if you know other things like for instance you can uh search up Greek words this is one word one word that could that means uh four so if you do this then it shows you so so you can
type in other languages but uh let's just use it this like this and what we want to do is just click this right and um uh this is pretty useful when you uh search of things like uh words Birds right like uh something like this right then words that start with thatti is really oh no is really nice because it could be baptized or baptize or baptizing you know there are other forms but again just a bit Po and cck this then you see here there are 11 occurrences of the word English word four in
the Gospel of Luke okay and if you hover over that English word uh it highlights the corresponding Greek word okay and if you click this again it shows you uh the definition of the word so uh again uh it is important to note that uh the real meaning of this Greek word is extremely poor extremely poor like a beggar yeah so it will means having nothing so I think a better translation of this word is destitute yeah rather than poor uh there is use there are some other Greek words that could be translated as poor
and uh yeah this particular word to course uh is better translated as uh destitute but um that didn't happen anyways so it is really important to know that uh as I told you last time uh Luke 4:18 is Jesus's mission statement Jesus is reading from the school of Isaiah but a lot of Scholars say that what Jesus does here is is announcing his mission statement and that's what Jesus does okay um yeah so and you see uh this passage is quoted again uh elsewhere in Luke I'm going to I'm not going to tell you where
it does I hope you just searched it up um if you look at the occurrences of the word poor in look you can clearly see that uh it's uh pretty interesting so in Luke 20 for instance oh do you see that that's another useful function um I want to know I mean I I just explained to you you know what was happening the literally context of this uh verse but sometimes you're not sure now you want to know the full context of this verse right and just you just click it oh and then a new
panel pops up here and it shows you the context of the verbs you just clicked right and you can manually add more panels just like that and to remove it just hit X here that's pretty nice right so in Luke 620 Jesus is saying that um and here I don't want to I don't need to see the so try the column you can compare uh what Jesus says in here with what Jesus says in Matthew so in Matthew Jesus says uh you know the the attitude blessed are those who are poor in spirit but in
look blessed are you and here you means his disciples So within the Gospel of Luke his disciples are considered or or destitute and Jesus says in Luke yours is the kingdom of God uh in Matthew again blessed are those who are are poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God but in Luke you the disciples are poor and the kingdom of God is yours so that's uh that's different and um in the gospel of Matthew Jesus says you know uh uh uh I don't yeah I'm I'm like yeah I I just decided not
to go to Matthew to save time I have other things to do within this lecture so I mean if you want to do it you can quickly go to the goel the website I uh here here the gloss P zo in this this this okay uh it's 6 20 or so wait I'm doing it click this and I'll on the left side you have Matthew the parallel passage right in the gospel of Matthew Jesus says blessed are the poor in in spirit so Jesus is talking about spiritual poverty here right um uh and here blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness but uh in L uh it's just blessed are you that hunger now right and uh in look uh the Beatitudes are followed by woes right in Matthew it's just Beatitudes in Luke the Beatitudes are followed by woes and here woe to you that are rich so it's not some sort of spiritual like wealth Jesus Jesus said Jesus is is talking about material like literal poverty here and wealth so world to you that are rich world to you that are full now will to you that are left now
and so on so it's very clear it should be very clear to you that the gospel look Jesus in The Gospel of Luke is really interested in uh the poor okay and oh actually it's right here the passage I wanted to talk about I mentioned so John's disciples came to Jesus and asked are you the one or should we wait for another person and Jesus answers uh this is happening and that's a reference to that right so Jesus is saying that doing this is the mission of the Messiah the spirit of the Lord is upon
me and so on so that's pretty clear um and uh I can't discuss every single instance of that and I just want to mention this thing The Story of Lazarus is unique to look it it is only found in the gospel of it's not in Mark not in Matthew not in John so and uh it is about uh beer okay which is the original meaning of this word as I showed you I mean as you see here here right um and uh in the gospel look J just says to the rich person click it again
you can see the context right uh say you have to sell everything and give it to the poor uh you will have treasure in heaven and come follow me so to follow Jesus you have to be kind of like poor I mean Jesus said that Jesus said to the disciples right uh blessed are those uh blessed are you who are destitute right to the disciples and the famous story of zakus and this guy needs to give to the poor although he didn't sell uh Jesus didn't tell him to sell everything he voluntarily uh sold uh
uh he voluntar uh he said he's going to do this right voluntarily and I'm giving back four times as much and so on and uh yeah that's about it uh so let's move to acts yeah that's about right time and I'm going to come back to look because I want to talk about the connections between look and acts um and by the way uh it's called Luke acts because the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are written by the same person it's pretty clear nobody doubts that so yeah it's one actually one
work look is volume one and acts is volume two actually it's one work with in two volumes okay that's why Scholars use the expression looka all right literary structure of Acts it is helpful to know the the larger uh structure literary structure of the writing you are studying but the thing is uh there is no consensus on the structure of the acopia Apostles in my introduction to the gospels and Acts or to the New Testament I discuss several options but here I'm I'm just giving you one which is I think enough um for us here
and I kind of again suppose that uh you have to learn some things about the gospels and acts all right uh one way to understand not the only right way one good way to understand the literary structure of Act is this geographical in acts 18 Jesus says you will be my witness in Jerusalem Judean Samaria and to the ends of the Earth and um yeah Raymond Brown's introduction to the New Testament is uh has been a popular textbook uh for introductory classes uh although it's a little old but uh it's it's good it's good so
uh this is an outline of Acts from that book so as you can see that uh in the first chapter of Acts you have uh this short section uh about Jesus the reason Jesus sent the disciples and then you have uh here uh from chapter 2 to the beginning of eight by the way a B what are these when a verse has more than one part like two parts like two sentences or more you have a b sometimes even C but anyways uh here you have mission in Jerusalem and then Samaria and Judea and then
uh all the way to the to the last sin uh in Acts is Paul uh doing his mission in the city of Rome so and uh how come that's the end of the Earth uh in some Jewish text Psalms of Solomon Rome is considered uh the end of the Earth so for this reason some Scholars many scholar s think that uh Paul bring the gospel to the city of Rome is bringing the gospel to the end of the Earth as she just said here but um the end of Acts portrays post mission in Rome as
ongoing it's more likely that uh the author is trying to say that uh this mission is is still going on you the the readers the audience you need to carry this on something like that uh or the might meant that that the Roman was the the end of the Earth it's unclear all right so um and you can divide the actual the apostles in two big Parts it's in the first big part is another way to understand the structure of Acts in the first part the main character is Peter who was the leader of the
church in Jerusalem and then uh in the later part second part you have Paul Paul is a main character um so see this way the acts of the apost acts of the uh Apostles you can understand the structure of the Acts of the Apostles easily again it's one good way and then uh I want to emphasize the importance of the martyrdom of Steven in chapter 7 this is an important juncture um and uh if you are a bachelor's student in a bachelor's program you don't have to but uh those in the master in the master's
program you need to read the assigned reading Shel Matthew's from Shel Matthew's book The Perfect M which is about the martyrdom of Steven right uh Scholars say m Steven's martyrdom is an important juncture like a turning point before this um it's mostly about about uh the Jerusalem Church but after his death uh there were some persecution of the followers of Jesus so they had to go outside Jerusalem they're like they're pushed out so that's how the gospel was brought to BR Beyond Jerusalem so and for that reason and for some other reasons the martyrdom of
Steven is really really important and we're going to talk about that uh momentarily and here I chose to discuss some connections between look and acts uh relating to uh to discipleship so first thing is about the poor um so we just saw that uh in the Gospel of Luke uh the poor or the destitute uh are very important they are at the center of Jesus's mission in Acts uh 4 uh you have the statement there is not a needy person among them uh in the Jerusalem Church because they shared things they sold their uh positions
and they uh share them but then you have it was kind of mandatory as you can see in the story of ananas and shaf safira uh you can read it uh when you have time but it basically tells you that sharing is a must all right so uh in a sense uh the disciples in the Jerusalem Church the followers of Jesus in the Jerusalem Church were continuing what Jesus did appearing or the destitute okay second thing um I want to discuss this expression shaking the dust off uh so it has to do with Mission and
that's of course uh relevant to our theme sayle this this yeah oh uh B gateway.com I mean you can do this using this website but uh by gateway.com is another useful website uh is it too much if you're not going to uh deal with Greek or Hebrew this is pretty straightforward uh right and I there it's there are more resources you can do more uh one good thing about this website is that you have more selections so here you do have the nrsp updated Edition that I recommend yeah so dust in the nrsp so um
I think here if you want to uh do something about Greek or Hebrew you need to pay you need to subscribe I can't remember but anyways it shows you where the word uh dust occurs in look twice let's click that we large it a little more this is good so one useful function available here is that if you uh click this you can see all the translations isn't that amazing wow depending on the first you're studying this uh uh this function is can be extremely useful uh yeah but uh let's just click this full chapter
then you have this so this this thing uh occurs within this uh paragraph or passage the mission of the 12 in chapter 9 so uh he all the 12 and gave them the power and authority over all demons and and diseases and she sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God uh to heal the sick and Jesus says not take nothing for your journey nothing no money no bird nothing so when when you enter a house stay there and yeah until you leave the town wherever they do not not welcome you they are leaving
you are as you're leaving that town Shake the Dust off of your feet as a testimony against them so it means that when you enter town and begin proclaiming the gospel if they welcome you in you can stay there and uh eat the food they provide um yeah but if you proclaim the gospel and they don't welcome you then you just do this shake the dust off uh what's the point well Jesus explains that in the next occurrence let's go back and in chapter 10 you have another mission this time mission of the 72 okay
so this time Jesus sends out 72 and then uh gives a longer uh longer instructions but basically it's the same thing right remain in the same house eating and drinking whatever they provide uh because you deserve that JS says and so if they the town people welcome you that's nice and do it uh uh and if they do not welcome you uh then even the dust of your town that claims to our dead we wipe up to protest against you uh so you just proclaim the gospel and then if they don't accept you you just
leave move to the next town but uh what's the point well I'm telling you Jesus says on that day last day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town so the thing is uh your job as a disciple is to proclaim the gospel if they accept you that's nice if they don't uh it is their responsibility uh right it's on them now since you have done your job but if you don't do your job like if you don't uh proclaim the gospel then it is your responsibility you see the point right so
shaking the dust off is a symbolic action that uh means you have done your part okay going back to the search results and scroll down and where that word occurs in X so we don't need to discuss all the three here just click one and that's the part where Barnabas and Saul uh go around and preach the gospel right and they go to this city this city called Antioch not the other Antioch which is more famous this antio pidan Antioch is in Turkey today uh um yeah it it it still is there from from this
time yeah I actually have been there uh so Paul and Barnabas go there and preach the gospel and you see what they said and just scrolling down when the Gentiles heard this uh the basp the gospel message they they proclaimed there Paul and Barnabas here gladed and praised the word of the Lord as many as been destined for eternal life became Believers thus the word of the Lord spread throughout the region but there are some people like the Jews around there inside it The Devout women of high standing and Leading Men of the city and
stirred up persecution against Paul against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region so they shoot the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to another city so they are doing what uh Jesus told the disciples to do regarding evangelism and that happens two more times in Acts here and here okay so that's one Clear Connection regarding uh mission right third Point uh it's going to be quick Jesus on the cross and the marom of Steven so Steven is one of the seven deacons in Acts and the marom of Steven
is important for several reasons he's a model disciple he dies like the like Jesus in Luke we'll see that momentarily his martydom is the beginning of the Jewish persecution of Jerusalem Church due to the persecution the disciples uh were pushed out of Jerusalem so resulting in the spread of the Gospel uh to Judea and Samaria so when you think about it uh so that you know persecution is not a good thing you know they are persecuted it's not good but then even through this as a result the gospel was uh brought to other places you
know beyond Jerusalem as as Jesus said you know so that's an important uh Turning Point important juncture okay and uh Paul who is the main character in the second part of Acts is introduced in 81 he was there when Steven was murdered so that's another reason um so Stephen is moded in Acts 7 uh in Acts 6 um you see what Steven did Full of Grace and power he did great wonders and signs just like Jesus isn't that amazing and and uh his face was like the face of an Angel that's pretty pretty impressive you
know almost like it's reminiscent of the Transfiguration of Jesus you know what I'm talking about yeah uh if you don't you can just search that up in chapter 7 um he gives a very very long sermon you know beginning from verse two all the way to this point 53 so for about 50 verses he he preaches um so when they heard these things they became raged and they try try to kill him and then uh he says Steven says I see the heavens open and the son of man standing at the right hand of God
and and uh they are like even more angry and they try to kill him and soul is introduced right here right so it's a transitional moment or turning point in Acts and then as he was stoned Steven prayed Lord Jesus received my spirit this and then uh he nailed down and CED out cried out in a loud voice Lord do not hold his sin against them if you know your Bible that should sound familiar okay so prayer is a very important theme within the Gospel of Luke okay so only in the Gospel of Luke Jesus
we are told that Jesus was praying at Jesus's baptism okay only in Luke and the heavens heaven was opened and after Jesus's sermon in Nazareth this is uh you know uh Jesus reads this Scroll of Isaiah and that's uh 4 18 right so it's this and when Jesus said that uh they tried to kill him so that's the kind of uh reaction Jesus had know they're filled with rage and most importantly Jesus on the cross uh Jesus said father forgive them but they do not know what they're doing which is like what step said here
right this and uh he also said this into your hands I command my spirit which is a quotation from Psalm but um both statements this and that uh these are only in the Gospel of Luke okay so it's a pretty looking thing unique to look so Stephen what you can see is that stepen is like Jesus he dies like Jesus he did things like Jesus and he died like Jesus Jes okay so he in this regard he's a model disciple all right thank you that's it
