New Testament

Week 11: The Gospel of Luke, Part 3

Luke 19:45–24:53

7 January 2027

Lesson video will be posted after the class has been held.

• The source for the Sadducees’ challenge to Jesus on marriage and the resurrection in Luke 20:27–40 was probably the story of Sarah and Tobias in the apocryphal book of Tobit. You can read this story in Tobit 3:7–17.

• Luke 22:43–44 is one of the most difficult New Testament passages from a textual standpoint. Bart D. Ehrman and Mark A. Plunkett argue that the passage was not written by Luke but was added to Luke’s Gospel at a later date in “The Angel and the Agony: The Textual Problem of Luke 22:43–44,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983): 401–16. BYU professor Lincoln H. Blumell argues that the passage was written by Luke but was removed from early New Testament manuscripts in “Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?,” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 19 (2014): 1–35.

• W. Reid Litchfield, “The Search for the Physical Cause of Jesus Christ’s Death,” BYU Studies 37, no. 4 (1998): 93–109.