A Pocket Book of Biblical References — Page 60
A POCKET BOOK OF BI BLICAL REFE RENCES 60 PROF OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE: UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE: HOWARD PRESS: PG 919 LUKE 24. 51; A CONJECTURE : While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried into heaven. Luke could not have seen Christ carried into heaven as his other testimony declares: While they beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received him out of sight. ACTS 1. 9 LUKE WAS NOT AN EYE WITNESS: For as much as have taken in hand to set forth in order of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye witnesses, and minsters of the word: It seemed to me also, having had pe rfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainity of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. LUKE 1. 1/4 Luke did not speak of himself as an eye witness of the events in the life of Christ that are recorded in his Gospel