The Gospels · New Testament
Luke
Luke is book 42 of 66 and belongs to the Gospels in the New Testament. It has 24 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 144 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Luke 1: Luke 1: the promised births of John and Jesus
The book opens with an address to Theophilus: many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of things most surely believed, delivered… - Luke 2: Luke 2: the birth at Bethlehem, the temple welcome and the boy among the doctors
A decree from Cesar Augustus sends everyone to his own city to be taxed, and Joseph goes from Nazareth to Bethlehem with Mary, who is great with… - Luke 3: Luke 3: John's preaching, the baptism of Jesus and the line back to Adam
The chapter opens with a list of rulers and high priests and says the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. John… - Luke 4: Luke 4: the wilderness temptation and the first days of teaching
Jesus returns from Jordan full of the Holy Ghost and is led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where he is tempted forty days and eats nothing. The… - Luke 5: Luke 5: the great draught, a roof opened for forgiveness and questions about fasting
By the lake of Gennesaret Jesus teaches from Simon's ship, then tells him to launch out into the deep. Simon says they have toiled all night and… - Luke 6: Luke 6: sabbath disputes, the twelve chosen and the teaching in the plain
Disciples pluck ears of corn on the sabbath, and certain Pharisees object. Jesus answers by recalling what David did with the shewbread and says the… - Luke 7: Luke 7: a centurion's servant, the widow of Nain and an anointing at a Pharisee's table
At Capernaum a centurion sends elders of the Jews to ask healing for a servant who is dear to him, and they say he loves the nation and built the… - Luke 8: Luke 8: the sower, the storm, the man called Legion and Jairus' daughter
Jesus travels city by city with the twelve and with certain women who had been healed, named as Mary called Magdalene, Joanna the wife of Chuza… - Luke 9: Luke 9: the twelve sent out, bread for five thousand and the face set toward Jerusalem
Jesus gives the twelve power over devils and disease and sends them out to preach and heal, telling them to take nothing for the journey. Herod the… - Luke 10: Luke 10: the seventy sent out, the neighbour question and Martha's house
The Lord appoints seventy others and sends them two and two ahead of him, telling them the harvest is great and the labourers few, to carry neither… - Luke 11: Luke 11: a pattern for prayer, the Beelzebub charge and woes at a Pharisee's table
A disciple asks to be taught to pray as John taught his disciples, and Jesus gives the words beginning Our Father which art in heaven. He follows… - Luke 12: Luke 12: hypocrisy exposed, the rich man's barns and servants who watch
Before a crowd treading on one another, Jesus warns his disciples of the leaven of the Pharisees, which he calls hypocrisy, and says nothing covered… - Luke 13: Luke 13: repentance, a bent woman loosed, and the narrow door
Some present tell Jesus of Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asks whether those Galileans were sinners above the… - Luke 14: Luke 14: a sabbath meal, the great supper, and counting the cost
Jesus goes into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath, and the narrator says they watched him. A man with the dropsy is… - Luke 15: The joy of finding, and the invitation to join it
Jesus responds to complaints that he welcomes sinners and eats with them through stories of a lost sheep, a lost coin and a father with two sons… - Luke 16: Luke 16: the unjust steward, mammon, and the rich man and Lazarus
Jesus tells his disciples of a rich man whose steward is accused of wasting his goods and is called to give an account. The steward reasons with… - Luke 17: Luke 17: forgiveness, ten lepers, and the day of the Son of man
Jesus tells the disciples that offences will come, pronounces woe on the one through whom they come, and says a millstone and the sea would be better… - Luke 18: Luke 18: the persistent widow, the publican’s prayer, and Jericho
Jesus speaks a parable about praying always and not fainting: a judge who feared not God nor regarded man finally avenges a widow because her… - Luke 19: Luke 19: Zaccheus, the pounds, the entry, and the temple
Jesus passes through Jericho, where Zaccheus, chief among the publicans and rich, cannot see him for the crowd because he is little of stature, so he… - Luke 20: Luke 20: questions in the temple and the vineyard parable
As Jesus teaches in the temple, the chief priests and scribes come with the elders and ask by what authority he acts. He answers with a question… - Luke 21: Luke 21: the widow’s mites and the words about Jerusalem
Jesus looks up and sees rich men casting gifts into the treasury and a poor widow casting in two mites, and says she has cast in more than all of… - Luke 22: Luke 22: the passover meal, the mount of Olives, and Peter’s denials
The feast of unleavened bread called the Passover draws near while the chief priests and scribes seek how to kill him, fearing the people. Satan… - Luke 23: Luke 23: Pilate and Herod, the crucifixion, and the burial
They lead him to Pilate and accuse him of perverting the nation, forbidding tribute to Cesar, and saying he is Christ a King. Pilate questions him… - Luke 24: Luke 24: the empty sepulchre, the Emmaus road, and the parting at Bethany
On the first day of the week the women come very early with the spices they had prepared, find the stone rolled away and do not find the body. Two…
