Translations:DEV 05FN Life of Christ/218/en

'Luke tells us (Luke 1:1-4) that he sought to provide a well investigated and “orderly account” of Jesus life. The other writers were not concerned with order of events but arranged their accounts around themes. For example, John, the last of the four to write his gospel, recorded a lot of new material filling in some of the gaps in time especially the first year and a half (Jn 1-4) and the last few weeks (Jn 12-21) of Jesus earthly life and ministry. In fact John 13-20 cover just three days!  The Gospel of Luke gives us some date markers so that we can locate Jesus in a historical context. Read Luke 1:1-4. Luke tells us that Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod [the Great] (Luke 1:5), during the reign of Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1-7) and while Quirinius was governor of Syria (Luke 2:2). He also states Jesus started his ministry during the 15th reign of Tiberius Caesar (Luke 3:1-2) and that Jesus was about 30 years old when he started (Luke 3:21-23). This is important because it helps us learn more about when and how long Jesus did his ministry. We can begin to see steps he took to lay a foundation for disciplemaking, develop his followers into disciplemakers and over time equip proven disciplemakers to become multiplying movement leaders.'