Add to ORKGIt is the contention of this writer that, although these various theological interpretations may offer a partial explanation to the enigma of Luke\u27s central section, they do not adequately account for the diversity or arrangement of material. It is the writer\u27s thesis that Luke may have selected a part of his materials for the central section from a collection of pericopae used to train missionaries in the early Church. That such a written or oral tradition existed before St. Luke wrote his Gospel may be inferred from St. Paul\u27s sermon at Antioch in Pisidia, But God raised him from the dead; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people (Acts 13:...