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With the precision of a historian and physician, Luke wrote his gospel to assure those who read it that God had fulfilled His purposes in the life and ministry of Jesus. Dr. Butler shows us how Luke presents a compassionate Jesus, a Messiah concerned with the needy and less fortunate. This gospel, to a mostly Greek-speaking audience, was the result of diligent, firsthand research, written not...

in Genesis 10, where the Hebrew text has seventy nations but the early Greek translation (the Septuagint) has seventy-two names. In Numbers 11:24–25 the Spirit falls on seventy elders and then on Eldad and Medad, to total seventy-two. Local Jewish councils apparently had seventy-two members, but the Sanhedrin had seventy. Textual evidence may slightly favor seventy-two as the more difficult reading. If we could prove that Luke and Jesus were attempting to use the number symbolically or typologically
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