Luke’s Gospel is a history lesson. It is written like history and Luke claims to be writing history. He list 23 rulers by name, time and place, and almost countless places, and does it all without a single error. He is the only historian of the time to be so accurate.
The gospel was written before 66 A.D. We know this because he references it in the Acts of the Apostles, so it was written before he wrote Acts. Acts ends with Paul in prison in Rome, but without mentioning his death, which occurred at the orders of Nero in 66-67 A.D. There is also a prediction by Jesus that the Temple would be destroyed, but there is no mention of it’s actual destruction, which occurred in 70 A.D., in either this Gospel or Acts.
- Gospel of Luke
- Luke 1: 1-4 Introduction : Fulfilling a Purpose
- Luke 1: 5-7 The Parents of John the Baptist
- Luke 1: 8 -17 Who John the Baptist Will Be
- Luke 1: 18-25 Gabriel and God and Reality
- Luke 1:26-38 The Birth Of Jesus Foretold
- Luke 1: 39-45 Mary Visits Elizabeth
- Luke 1: 46-56 Mary’s Song – The Magnificat
- Luke 1:57-65 The Birth of John the Baptist
- Luke 1:67-80 Zechariah’s Prophecy – Here Comes The Son!
- Luke 2: 1-7 Jesus is Born In Bethlehem
- Luke 2: 8-14 God Sends Out His Baby Announcement
- Luke 2:16-20 Shepherds find Jesus
- Luke 2: 21-24 Jesus is Presented In The Temple
- Luke 2: 25-35 Simeon’s Prophecy at the Presentation
- Luke 2: 36-40 Anna The Crazy Old Lady In The Temple
- Luke 2: 41-51 Jesus Runs Away From Home, Or Maybe To Home?
- Luke 3: 1- 2 The New Testament Is History
- Luke 3: 3-6 John The Baptist Starts Moving Dirt
- Luke 3: 7-8 John Comes Out Swinging
- Luke 3: 9-14 What Should We Do
- Luke 3: 15-20 Someone Greater Than John is Coming
- Luke 3: 21-38 The Baptism of Jesus
- Luke 4: 1-2 Jesus Goes To Bootcamp
- Luke 4: 1-4 A “Hangry” Jesus Keeps His Eye On The Prize
- Luke 4: 5-8 Satan Uses His “Stuff” To Tempt Jesus.
- Luke 4: 9-13 Come On Jesus – If You’re So Hot, Prove It!
- Luke 4: 14-20
- Luke 4: 22-30 Jesus Neighbors and Friends Try To Kill Him
- Luke 4: 31-37 Did That Demon Know Jesus Better Than Me?
- Luke 4: 38-41 Jesus Goes On A Healing Rampage!
- Luke 4: 42-44 Jesus Is Moving – Am I?
- Luke 5: 1-11 Gone Fishin!
- Luke 5: 12-16 Am I A Leper? Are You?
- Luke 5: 17-26 The Stage Is Set, Which Part Is Yours?
- Luke 5: 27-32 I’m scared to share this. Please be kind.
- Luke 5: 33-39 Jesus Changes Everything.
- Luke 6: 1-5 A Discussion about the Sabbath
- Luke 6: 6-11 Jesus just keeps stirring the pot!
- Luke 6: 12-16 Jesus wrestles with his Dad
- Luke 6: 17-19 Crowds in need…everywhere…today.
- Luke 6: 20 – Oh to be poor!
- Luke 6: 21 Hungry, and not on a diet!
- Luke 6 – Rivers and tears and mountains of laughter
- Luke 6: 22-23 Jumping For Joy!
- Luke 6: 24-26 Pointless Suffering?
- Luke 6: 27-36 This is the difference!
- Luke 6: 37-38 Sowing and reaping…what?
- Luke 6: 39-41 Bob, Tom and Jesus are in a bar…
- Luke 6: 43-45 Fruit trees and me.
- Luke 6: 46-49 Rain, floods and ruins
- Luke 7: 1-10 What was different about this Roman?
- Luke 7: 11-17 Jesus = compassion = action. What about me?
- Luke 7: 18-23 John the Baptist questions Jesus…
- Luke 7: 24-30 Living a life worth losing your head over.
- Luke 7: 31-35 Some people are never happy
- Luke 7: 36-50 It’s a scene in drama – choose your part
- Luke 8: 1-3 Jesus goes on tour with groupies!
- Luke 8: 4-15 So what kind of dirty are you?
- Luke 8: 16-18 All For The World To See
- Luke 8: 19-21 Rules is Rules Spanky!
- Luke 8: 22-25 Seeing life through different eyes could be an adventure.
- Luke 8: 26-33 Jesus, Legion and Hate
- Luke 8: 34-39 Go home to your own.
- Luke 8: 40-48 The touch that changes everything!
- Luke 8: 49-56 Defining “Dead” and “Alive”
- Luke 9: 1-6 Graduating followers into guides.
- Luke 9: 7-9 Don’t be too radical, play it safe like Herod.
- Luke 9: 10-11 The Best Made Plans…
- Luke 9: 12-17 Words to build a life upon…
- Luke 9: 18-20 Who do you say I am?
- Luke 9: 21-22 Get it done!
- Luke 9: 23-27 Rolling Tomb Rocks
- Luke 9: 28-36 Seeing what dying looks like – and it’s awesome.
- Luke 9: 37-43 Frustration as Motivation
- Luke 9: 43-45 I am so blind
- Luke 9: 46-48 The servant of all
- Luke 9: 49-50 Friends and allies everywhere!
- Luke 9: 51-56 Be all fired up – for the right thing.
- Luke 9: 56-62 Skydiving
- Luke 10: 1-4 Be like lambs, among wolves…and don’t worry about it!
- Luke 10: 5-7 Being a peaceful blessing
- Luke 10: 8-16 We’re just the messengers
- Luke 10: 17-20 Love is more powerful than power
- Luke 10:21-24 Like a child