A Defense for the Chronological Order of Luke’s Gospel

“This is a pivotal work for today’s New Testament scholarship, and Benjamin Fung includes several creative ways to research it. Many years ago, treating Luke’s gospel in chronological order was a given, but today it is questioned by some liberal and evangelical scholars. Fung has done exhaustive and careful research showing how a chronological perspective fits well within the Gospel, and outside it, as a technique common among ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish historians. This is a must read for anyone interested in affirming the chronological order of the Gospel of Luke.”


—Aida Besançon Spencer, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary





“In his preface the author of Luke states that he wrote an ‘orderly’ account. However, scholars have no consensus on the writing order of this gospel. Dr. Fung aimed to ascertain Luke’s writing order by evaluating different suggestions, conducting textual, grammatical, and semantic studies, analyzing the narrative sequence in Luke’s gospel and comparing it with writing methodologies of Greco-Roman and Jewish historians. Fung’s well motivated finding is that Luke wrote his gospel in chronological order.”


—Francois P. Viljoen, North-West University, South Africa