Luke's story, though only four verses long, has been a complex source of inspiration, interpretation, and debate for centuries.

In 1943, Laughton recorded a reading of the Nativity story from St. Luke's Gospel, and this was released in 1995 on CD on a Nimbus Records collection entitled Prima Voce: The Spirit of Christmas Past.

Luke's story centers on Mary, while Matthew's story centers on Joseph, and in both gospel accounts ( Luke 2: 1-7 and Matthew 2: 1 ) Jesus is conceived without a human father.

The star often appears in representations of the manger scene found in Luke, although the star and the wise men do not appear in Luke's nativity story.

The unlikely pairing became popular in spite of Luke's past misdeed when the story shifted to focus on love and redemption.

This reading contradicts Luke's story of the emergency trip to the town, however.

That Luke's version of the story clearly identifies the location as Jerusalem may be due to Theophilus's unfamiliarity with Judaism.

Obi-Wan Kenobi takes Luke to his hut, where he reveals that he knew Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, and served with him in the Clone Wars.

The annual Saint Luke's Parish Fiestal takes place at the St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in April.

The book takes Luke's style to its logical conclusion, as the entire book is made up of sections taken from other, fictional books.

Leia takes up Luke's lightsaber and begins fighting Darth Vader, but he toys with her, giving her multiple superficial burns with his own saber.

In the Galactic Alliance, Chief of State Cal Omas becomes impatient with the New Jedi Order's progress in dealing with the Killik problem, so he takes advantage of Luke's absence from the Order and appoints Corran Horn as its temporary leader.

In Havelock North, St Luke's church was damaged ( but not destroyed ) just before a wedding was due to take place.

When the Church of St Luke's, near Kings Cross, was removed to make way for the construction of the Midland Railway Station, the estimated twelve thousand inhabitants of Somers Town at that time were deprived of that place of worship, as the Church was re-erected in Kentish Town.

A large number of Maltese citizens have Tal-Pietà as their place of birth, because many women give birth at St. Luke's Hospital.

This was a time of great revival and several missionary activities took place at St. Luke's Church, Borella.

On 8 July 1996, as nationally reported in the news, a machete attack took place at St Luke's Nursery School in Blakenhall, when 32-year-old local man Horrett Campbell ran riot-stabbing 21-year-old nursery nurse Lisa Potts and six children aged between two and four years.

In retaliation, Roy storms into New Deal and attacks Jeff before discovering Luke's resting place.

The majority of the events take place in the Red Lion, the village hall, the Crown Inn and St Luke's Church.

Luke's closing statement that the devil " departed from him until an opportune time " may provide a narrative link to the immediately following attempt at Nazareth to throw Jesus down from a high place, or may anticipate a role for Satan in the Passion ( cf.

The date of the Gospel of Luke is traditionally fixed to some time before the end of the final events of Luke's second volume to Theophilus, Acts, so as early as 59 or 60.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).

He died just before Christmas 1749 on Saturday 23 December in his house behind St Luke's Church, Old Street, London.

He held this post for four years, before winning an open competition for the much more prestigious post of organist at of St. Luke's, Chelsea, then called Chelsea New Church, in December 1824.

On the east side of the freeway, M-3 runs past the Historic Trinity Lutheran and St. John's-St. Luke's Evangelical churches before intersecting the end of the Fisher Freeway, which at this location is an unnumbered connector to I-75 and I-375.

The club was founded as ' St Luke's Football Club ' in 1877, a school side, before merging with another local football and cricket team, ' The Wanderers ' two years later to form Wolverhampton Wanderers.

A flood devastates the family's cotton crop before the harvest is completed, and Luke's parents decide to travel to the city to find work in a Buick Plant, breaking a history of generations working on the land.

The order opened an infirmary in 1853, before moving to St. Luke's Hospital.

Brookmyre was raised and schooled in Barrhead, attending St. Mark's Primary School and St. Luke's High School, before attending the University of Glasgow.

The annunciation to the shepherds of the birth of the Christ is represented in the words of St Luke's Gospel.

Luke's narrative describes an angel announcing the birth of Jesus to shepherds who then visit the humble site where Jesus is found lying in a manger, a trough for cattle feed.

However, C. T. Ruddick, Jr. writes that Luke's birth narratives ( both of Jesus and John ) were modeled on passages from Genesis: 27-43.

Thus the Gospel of Matthew is held to record Jesus ' lineage by birth while Luke's by law, this distinction being defended by Luke's use of the phrase " Joseph son of Eli, as was supposed.

Unlike Luke's account, Matthew focuses on the character of Joseph and Joseph's discovery and concern over his betrothed's pregnancy and the message from an angel telling Joseph to stand by Mary, quoting Isaiah 7: 14 presaging the birth of the Messiah.

Hudson gave birth to a son with an unknown father ( she is said to believe his father was the Sun ) on September 25, 2004, at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, with thanatophoric dysplasia, a typically fatal form of congenital dwarfism.

Robert Funk of the Jesus Seminar has suggested that both Luke's and Matthew's birth and infancy accounts are fabrications.

On August 16, 2008, she gave birth, via Caesarian section ( 8-9 p. m .) to an 8 pound, 12 ounce ( 3. 68 kg ) baby boy at St. Luke's Hospital, Quezon City.

The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but more succinct Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke ( 6: 17 – 49 ), which occurs at the same moment in Luke's narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot.

The Gospel of Luke also reports that such questions were asked of Jesus ; in Luke's case it being the priests that repeatedly accused him, though Luke states that Jesus remained silent to such inquisition, causing Pilate to hand Jesus over to the jurisdiction ( Galilee ) of Herod Antipas.

Luke, however, made further reference to this involvement of Herod along with Pilate in Jesus ' execution and linked it with the prophecy about the Messianic King found in Psalm 2, as we can read in Luke's other book, Acts 4: 24 – 28.

As the disciples rest, Jesus prays ; then Judas Iscariot leads in either " a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees " ( accompanied according to Luke's Gospel by the chief priests and elders ), or a " large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and elders of the people ", which arrests Jesus ; all his disciples run away.

The arresting party brings Jesus to the Sanhedrin ( Jewish supreme court ); according to Luke's Gospel, Jesus is beaten by his Jewish guards prior to his examination ; the court examines him, in the course of which, according to John's Gospel, Jesus is struck in the face by one of the Jewish officials ; the court determine he deserves to die ( see Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus ).

The first is a brief mention in Luke's genealogy of the ancestors of Jesus ( Luke 3: 37 ).

Regardless, Luke's nativity depicts Jesus as a savior for all people.

Luke's Christology centers on the dialectics of the dual natures of the earthly and heavenly manifestations of existence of the Christ, while Matthew's Christology focuses on the mission of Jesus and his role as the savior.

The synoptic Gospels agree that Jesus grew up in Nazareth, went to the River Jordan to meet and be baptised by the prophet John ( Yohannan ) the Baptist, and shortly thereafter began healing and preaching to villagers and fishermen around Luke's " Sea of Galilee " ( which is actually a freshwater lake ).

Er is also a name listed by the Gospel of Luke's version of the genealogy of Jesus.

Mary Magdalene and Joanna are among the women who went to prepare Jesus ' body in Luke's account of the resurrection, and who later told the apostles and other disciples about the empty tomb and words of the " two men in dazzling clothes ".

According to Luke's Gospel, Jesus was crucified between two thieves ( Dismas and Gestas ), one of whom supports Jesus ' innocence and asks him to remember him when he comes into his kingdom.