Luke 8:26-39l Following the encounter with the severe squall and subsequent calming of the storm by Jesus, they continued across the lake to an area called the Gerasenes in Gentile country. As Jesus stepped on the shore, a demon possessed man ran up and began shoulting. Jesus commanded the demon to leave and it was […]

Luke 8:22-25; Luke begins his final coverage of Christ’s Galilean ministry, with a series of miracles that affirm the authority of Jesus over creation. The first entails a boat crossing of the Sea of Galilee with the disciples and their encounter with a very severe storm. The events are a test of faith for Christ’s […]

Luke 8:16-21; Following the ‘parable of the soils’, Jesus continued to teach His disciples with a lesson about light. He noted that a lamp wwas not hidden, but placed on a stand so that those inside could see. Then issued a warning that nothing would remain hidden and all would be revealed by the light. […]

Luke 8:1-15; Luke begins chapter 8 with acknowledgemant of the women followers of Christ,including their vital role in providing financial support for the ministry. Then he shifts back to the teaching ministry of Jesus with the parable of the four soils. Jesus first shares the parable in public before unpacking the word picture for his […]

Luke 7:36-50; Luke next records an invitation by a Pharisee to Jesus to attend a dinner in his home. A “sinful woman” came as an observer, as she had heard Jesus was going to be there. She began to weep in His presence, wetting his feet with her tears, wiping them with her hair and […]

Luke 7:28-35; Jesus continues in the section that began with John the Baptist’s disciples’ visit to. Jesus to inquire whether he is truly the ‘one who is to come”. Jesus highly commended John and the effectiveness of his short ministry, but then shifted to the current generation of 1st century Israel. He alluded to the […]

Luke 7:18-27; While Jesus is traveling about Galilee doing miracles of healing and preaching, John the Baptst was locked in prison by Herod. John sent two of his disciples to Jesus to inquire whether He was indeed :the one who is to come”? Jesus relates His broad ministry of teaching and healing to affirm the […]

Luke 7:11-17; After healing the centurion’s servant from a distance in Capernaum, Jesus and the following crowd headed south to the small village of Nain. As they apprached, a funerarl procession was headed out to bury the only son of a widow. Jesus had compassion and first addressed the grieveing mother before raising her son […]

Luke 7:1-10; Having completed the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus returned to the village of Capernaum where he resided in Galilee. A group of Jewish elders approached him to request His healing of a Roman centurion’s servant who was gravely ill. The centurion had come to love the nation of Israel and helped them build […]

Luke 6:43-49; Luke concludes his condensed overview of the Sermon on the Mount in the same manner as Matthew. Jesus employed another agricultural metaphor to describe the differece between good and bad individuals. They were likened to trees bearing either good or bad fruit. Then Jesus referenced the nature of the human heart; whatever is […]