Religious+Education

Each of the 4 writers of the Gospels selected certain things to emphasize according to their sense of what was important for the readers. It is not a recount but a persuasive dedication.
 * WHO IS JESUS IN LUKES GOSPEL. **

Who is Luke?

He is a doctor and focuses on Jesus’ healing miracles. He lived in Syria 50 to 100 years after Jesus Lived. Friend to Paul who was Saul. He wrote it to communicate Jesus’life to people around the east Mediteranean.

Luke was a Gentile= a Greek man.

Lots of Greeks lived with the Jews but they didn’t like them because they didn’t follow Jewish rules of living.

Google map the area, identify Syria where he lived and the main places of Jesus’ life. Nazareth, Bethlehem, Lake Gallielee, Jerusalem.

Get Chns encyclopedia scan pictures and information about life in Jesus’ time. clothes, food, school, travel, what did people do doing the day. Google Jewish temple and observe it.

The Romans invaded Jerusalem and Palestine 6 years before the birth of Christ. They ruled the state with a Governor and an army.

The Jews had been contacted by God through Abraham, Moses and the ten commandments and many others. The Jews lived by Gods laws and called themselves the Chosen Ones. Everything about their lives including planting, eating, learning, Mass, praying had special rules.

At the Temple people burnt animals as a sacrifice to God. Chief priests managed the Temple and knew all the rules well. They made sure the Bible books were looked after. There were groups within the Jewish community and Jesus was an unofficial priest who belonged to the Pharisee group.

THE TEMPLE HAD DIFFERENT AREAS FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE. **Jews believed God existed in the inner sanctum and they believed if they were properly respectful God would be kind to them.** There were areas for- High priests, proper Jews, Gentiles and women.
 * The western wall of this temple still exists today. **

Synagogue- is like a church. Holy Jews went to the synagogue every day. The service centred around reading from the Bokks of Torah and then a reading froma prophet. Then they prayed Psalms together. Synagogues also acted as a library, a school for learning the Bible. There were senior priests who could punish people who were bad by stopping them coming to the temple. Gentiles, Greeks were allowed to go to the temple.

TEACHERS NOTES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

JESUS CLEANSES TEN LEPERS

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.(see map). As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him.

Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, ”Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to them,

“Go and show yourselves to the priests.”

As they walked to the priests they became healed.

Then one of them when he saw he was healed turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

He prostrated himself at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.(see map)

Then jesus asked him, “Were not ten made clean The other nine where are they?”

Was none of them found to return and give praise except this foreigner?”

He then said, “Get up and go on your way, your faith has made you well.”