The longest of the four gospels and the most deliberately historical: it opens by telling Theophilus that the author has traced everything from the beginning, dates the birth by a Roman census and the ministry by the fifteenth year of Tiberius, and is the only one to carry the Magnificat, the Good Samaritan and the road to Emmaus. The Acts is its second half.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. St Luke shares wording with 7 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in waterLuke 16 and Sermon 111
For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be openedMatthew 7 and Luke 11
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knockethLuke 11 and Book 12
He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scatterethLuke 11 and Homily 41
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise theMark 2 and Luke 5
me;" and, "He that despiseth you, despiseth meLuke 10 and Tractate 89
And no man putteth new wine into old bottlesLuke 5 and Chapter 2
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Translator: Gregory Martin / Challoner, 1750. Source: Gutenberg 8349.
The text here is the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision of 1750, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 8349.
Challoner heads each chapter with an argument of his own, which is printed and labelled as his.
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