Saturday, 5/20/17
Our first reading today is verses one to ten from Chapter
Sixteen of “The Acts of the Apostles.”
Through the first eight verses of
Chapter Sixteen, Luke, writing about the journeying of Paul and his travelling companions wrote about what “they”
did, and of what happened to “them.”
Then in verse ten, Luke himself snuck into the narrative with
his writing, “We sought passage to
Macedonia. Concluding that God had called us
to proclaim the gospel.”
Although Luke contributed a third of its pages to the New
Testament. He never tells us his own story. The closest he came to coming out
of hiding was in the opening sentence of his Gospel where he wrote:
“Since many have
undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among
us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministeres of
the word have handed them down to us, I too have decided, after investigating
everything anew. To write it down in an orderly sequence.”
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