Luke 12 Luke 12 Luke 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records a number of teachings and parables told by Jesus Christ to "an innumerable multitude of people ... gathered together". 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 organizes this chapter as follows (with cross references to parallel sections in Matthew's gospel): Scottish minister William Robertson Nicoll suggests this is "the largest crowd mentioned anywhere
New Testament people named John On whether or not John of Ephesus is to be identified with any of the Johns in the New Testament narrative—the son of Zebedee, the high-priestly John, or even John Mark—modern scholars remain divided. 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