The careful historian's gospel — outsiders welcomed, and joy on every page.
"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great ______, which shall be to all people."
Luke was a physician and the only Gentile author in the Bible — and between his gospel and Acts, he wrote more of the New Testament by volume than anyone, Paul included.
The Christmas story you hear every December — the manger, the shepherds, the heavenly host — is Luke chapter 2, nearly word for word.
The prodigal son, the good Samaritan, and the lost coin all live only in Luke — the gospel of the lost and found.
Luke opens like a historian: he interviewed 'eyewitnesses,' traced 'all things from the very first,' and addressed it all to one curious reader named Theophilus.