Month: January 2023

This chapter contains accounts of Jesus sending out 72 disciples for ministry, a lament for unrepentant peoples, rejoicing in the Father’s will, the parable of the good Samaritan, and Mary listening at Jesus’ feet while Martha was serving. “The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!’…

This chapter has many records of Jesus’ ministry including conversations with His disciples, healing / casting out demons, the “transfiguration”, two predictions of His death, and dispatching the disciples for ministry work. “And [Jesus] said… ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For…

There is much happening here: the parable of the sower and the its purpose, a lamp under a jar analogy, Jesus’ commentary on spiritual family versus blood family, Jesus calming a raging storm, casting a legion of demons out of a man into a herd of pigs, healing a woman with chronic bleeding, and raising…

This chapter contains accounts of Jesus healing, raising a boy from the dead, conversing with John the Baptist’s messengers, and forgiving a ‘sinful woman’ who washed His feet with her tears / hair. “Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death… [he] heard about Jesus… asking him to…

This chapter includes Jesus and His disciples taking flack for ‘working’ on the Sabbath, the pronouncement of the 12 apostles, and Luke’s account of the ‘sermon on the mount’. ” ‘But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of…

This chapter included Jesus calling His first disciples, the healing of a paralytic and leper, and a conversation about fasting. “While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, ‘Lord, if you will, you can make…

This chapter includes Satan tempting Jesus in the wilderness, and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (many instances of teaching and healing). “And [the devil] took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it…

This chapter mainly outlines the ministry of John the Baptist, with some additional information on Jesus’ genealogy. “[John] said… ‘Bear fruits in keeping with repentance… Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire… Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and…

This chapter has the famous accounts of Jesus’ birth and shepherds encountering angels. It also has the lesser-known accounts of Jesus being dedicated at the temple, and later teaching / conversing in the tmeple as a young boy. “Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and…