Gospel Of Luke Resurrection Essay

The gospel of Luke was written to Jews and Gentiles with a focus on the outcast/ the poor. Its overall purpose is “following Jesus, the savior of the world”. The resurrection encounters in the gospel of Luke is appealing especially considering the audience of Luke. Luke’s style of reporting the encounters of the resurrection fits well his purpose as he is trying to convince his audience to “follow Jesus, the savior of the world”. Jesus is not only the savior of Jews, but of the world and that world include the outcast, the poor, women, children and ect..Jesus showed himself to women (the outcast) first, had conversations with them, and even ate with them.
In the gospel of Matthew, the resurrection encounters were much difference in detail compare to what we’ve seen in Mark and Luke. In Matthew, there was an earthquake as the angel of the Lord came down, moved the stone and sat on it. The angel told the women not to be afraid, that Jesus has risen, and ask the women to go and tell the other disciples. And to go to Galilee. As they were on their way to tell this to the other disciples, Jesus
This search started because of the growing skepticism toward the gospels. This caused Hermann Samuel Reimarus “ The father” of the quest to begin arguing in 1778 for a clear distinction between the actual Jesus of history and the Jesus that is described in the gospels. Ever since then, more quests for the real Jesus followed and they can be divided into four time periods: (1) the first or “old” quest, 1778-1906; (2) the “no quest” period, 1906-1953; (3) the “new” quest, 1953-1970; and (4) the third quest, from 1980 to present. This paper is going to focus on the third quest of the historical Jesus by comparing three author’s views on the historical