Luke 17 Luke 17 Luke 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings of Jesus Christ and the healing of ten lepers. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows: The Pulpit Commentary suggests that the whole of this chapter is concerned with "the Master's teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our
New Testament people named John New Testament people named John The name John (in Greek, ) is prominent in the New Testament and occurs numerous times. Among Jews of this period, the name was one of the most popular, borne by about five percent of men. Thus, it has long been debated which Johns are to be identified with which. Simon Peter is at times called “Simon, son of John”, though in Matthew the text has "Simon Bariona". The latter appears to be untranslated Aramaic, with "bar" meaning “son of” and "Iona" being Jonah, or according to Bauckham, "Jôhana‘", an Aramaized form of "John". John