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Women's Role In The Gospel Of Luke

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Gospel of Luke will show Jesus is someone that will take a serious and personal interest in those that are poor, in the women of society, and those that are powerless in the various communities. Luke shows how he believes that Jesus’s birth, His growing up, and the path of preaching and teaching were directly from the Holy Spirit, which is all part of God’s will. The power of prayer is another theme used by Luke, which Jesus consistently used all the time. Jesus used prayer before he chose his disciples, before He would preach or teach to his disciples. Luke describes the importance of women playing a huge part to fulfilling God’s plan with Jesus, even though women were powerless in society. Throughout the bible, woman’s role in fulfilling

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