{"id":169,"date":"2026-01-04T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=169"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:34:31","slug":"lukes-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Luke\u2019s Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"fz-20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=171\">\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3092\u30af\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u3057\u3066\u306d\uff01 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">Very little is known about Luke, the writer of the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li><span class=\"fz-24px\">He wrote <em>The Gospel According to Luke<\/em> and <em>The Acts of the Apostles<\/em> in the form of letters.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"fz-24px\">He was a physician. Paul calls him \u201cthe beloved physician\u201d (Colossians 4:14).<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"fz-24px\">He joined Paul on his second missionary journey at Troas in Asia Minor and stayed with him until Paul\u2019s martyrdom (Acts 16:10).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">Although it has not been proven, there is a view that Luke was not Jewish. This idea comes from Paul\u2019s Letter to the Colossians, where Paul lists the names of those who were Jewish and says, \u201cThese are the men of the circumcision,\u201d and then mentions Luke separately.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">Now,<\/span><span class=\"fz-24px\"> this is where my imagination begins to run free. What if Luke, like Timothy, had a Greek father and a Jewish mother? Perhaps he looked Greek, and although he had been circumcised, Paul unconsciously wrote about him in that way. If so, how did Luke\u2014after receiving an education as a physician\u2014come to be a Christian? When you read <em>The Gospel According to Luke<\/em>, you can tell that Luke knew Mary, the mother of Jesus, personally and listened carefully to her story. That must mean he visited the land of Israel at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">As these imaginings piled up, the story of <strong>\u201cLuke\u2019s Youth\u201d<\/strong> gradually began to take shape.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">In<\/span><span class=\"fz-24px\"> the famous port city of Troas, facing the Aegean Sea, a boy named Luke was born to a Greek father, Alex, and a Jewish mother, Dinah. The family had been physicians for generations. But when Luke was ten years old, Alex died of a widespread epidemic. Heartbroken, Dinah decided to return to Nazareth in Israel, where her parents lives, who had once disowned her,. After receiving forgiveness from their parents-in-law, she set out on the journey with Luke, under the promise that Luke would stay for only three years\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">After traveling by ship and on foot, Luke finally arrives in the rural village of Nazareth. There, he is thrown into a world of nature and customs completely different from his hometown. It is in this place that Luke meets a boy about his own age named Jesus. Nicknamed \u201cthe Singer,\u201d Jesus has a mysterious personality\u2014sometimes suddenly stopping whatever he is doing to pray to God. Through his friendship with this unusual boy, Luke too begins to grow in faith and love for the God of Israel\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">What was everyday life like in Israel around the first century? Imagination alone is not enough, so I began writing about \u201cthe world of children\u201d while consulting various historical sources. In truth, I would love to visit the land of Israel and experience its atmosphere for myself, but that has not yet been possible. For now, I have finished writing roughly the first year of the story. It has already grown into a long work of about 250 manuscript pages. Of course, it is an amateur\u2019s \u201cstory\u201d\u2014a world of self-satisfaction and play, just like this blog.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">For<\/span><span class=\"fz-24px\"> the past two years or so, my pen has been at a standstill. I have wanted to start writing again, but these days I can barely manage to keep this blog updated. Then a clever idea came to me. Why not write the story little by little here on the blog, like a serialized newspaper novel? That would be killing two birds with one stone!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">So from time to time, I would like to write stories under the title <strong>\u201cFirst Luke.\u201d<\/strong> Why that title? For example, in English, <em>The First Epistle of Peter<\/em> is often called <em>First Peter<\/em>. Luke wrote letters addressed to a man named Theophilus\u2014these became <em>The Gospel According to Luke<\/em> and <em>The Acts of the Apostles<\/em>. If Luke had written something before those, then that would be his \u201cfirst letter,\u201d with the Gospel as the \u201csecond\u201d and Acts as the \u201cthird.\u201d That is my own convenient bit of reasoning behind the name.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\"> If you have any thoughts, please leave a comment<\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"fz-24px\">Thanks in advance\u2014and here we go!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"bold-green\">Comments are welcomed below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-785af3a67ab6d1c779e0c1def8b98a34\"><span class=\"bold-green\">Please note: The comment form is displayed in Japanese.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3af5fcb05a99979a67f118d852c01a0c\"><span class=\"bold-green\">comment\u3000(\u30b3\u30e1\u30f3\u30c8)\u3000name (\u540d\u524d)\u3000mail (\u30e1\u30fc\u30eb)\u2026Your mail address will not be published.<\/span> \u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2a01180342af993cb897cf700604d1f1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3092\u30af\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u3057\u3066\u306d\uff01 Very little is known about Luke, the writer of the Bible. 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