I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Luke 9

Once again we have a passage where the connection between Jesus and John the Baptist is highlighted.  In this passage there are two separate connections made between Jesus’ teachings and what John the Baptist had taught.   First, we have Herod Antipas wondering who Jesus was because he had already beheaded John the Baptist.  Then, when Jesus asked His disciples who people thought He was, they replied that some people thought He was John the Baptist raised from the dead.  Once again, I am convinced that Luke believed that his readers were aware of John the Baptist as being part of a larger movement, a movement which I believe was viewed as the most genuine iteration of Judaism at that time.  Further, I believe that Luke made this connection because Christianity was starting to be viewed as a new religion rather than as a sect of Judaism.  I believe that Luke was trying to show that Christianity was firmly rooted in Judaism.