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 […]

Luke 6:37-42; Luke’s condensed version of the Sermon on the Mount continues on a very stern note. Jesus instructs His followers not to judge or condemn fellow believers, but rather liberally apply grace and mercy. He uses the metaphor of a plank in the eye of a person who is attempting to remove a speck […]

Luke 6:27-36; Luke continues his account of the Sermon on the Mount by including the very challenging teaching of Jesus on loving our enemies. This difficult aspect of the Christian walk is not a passive acceptance of ill treatment, but actively blessing and praying for those who bring pain.