Luke 1

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Luke 15

Tax collectors and sinners listen to Jesus and the Pharisees and the scribes speak against him. So Jesus tells a parable of a man who has 100 sheep, on losing one of them will leave the others and looks for the one missing. When he founds it he rejoices and he tells everybody. Same for a woman who has ten drachmas and losing one searches carefully till she finds it and then she tells everybody. Same for a man with two sons and the younger asks his father for the share of the property and goes away and wastes the money. When he has lost everything and he doesn’t know what to do, he decides to go back to his father. When he sees his son, he rejoices and makes a feast in his honor. When his older son comes back from work he becomes angry because he has always worked for his father who has never organized a feast in his honor. But his father explains to him that his younger brother was dead but has come to life.

 

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Luke 16

Jesus tells his disciples about a rich man and his steward who does a bad job. So the rich man wants to take away the stewardship from him. So the steward decides to trick his master. He goes to the houses of his master’s debtors and he reduces their debts. And his master commend him because of his practical wisdom though he is unrighteous. Jesus’ conclusion is that the sons of this system of things are wiser in a practical way toward their generation than the sons of light are. But the steward acted badly because he acted according to his way as human beings usually and they think that they act properly. It is a never-ending story. Will they understand before it is too late?

 

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Luke 17

Jesus tells his disciples never to be satisfied. Going to Jerusalem he meets 10 lepers and he cures them. One of them, who is a Samaritan, comes back to Jesus and thanks him. Then he tells some Pharisees that the Kingdom of God is among them. And he tells his disciples that one day he won’t be with them anymore. And he tells them that he must suffer and be rejected. Then he tells them about the days of the Son of man will be like the days of Noah as people enjoy themselves and the flood came and destroyed them and like the days of Lot as people enjoy themselves and they were all destroyed.

 

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Luke 18

Jesus tells an illustration the need to keep praying and not giving up. It deals with a widow who goes incessantly to a judge and finally gets justice to get rid of her. Then he tells about a Pharisee who is self-righteous and a tax collector who shows himself more righteous than the Pharisee. Jesus let the children come to him saying that those who want to enter into God’s kingdom must be like them. A man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit everlasting life as he follows all God’s commandments. As he is rich, Jesus tells him to sell everything he has. Then he says that he will be difficult for rich people to enter into God’s kingdom. Then he tells his disciples that the time has come for them to go to Jerusalem and for Jesus to be arrested and treated badly and killed and be risen. But they don’t understand because it was hidden from them. Then Jesus cures a blind man.

 

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Luke 19

In Jericho Zacchaeus a rich chief tax collector wants to see who Jesus is so he climbs a tree and Jesus tells him to go down because he wants to go to his house. And the man says that he gives half of his belongings to the poor and when he extort someone he gives him back four times. And Jesus says he has come for sinners. Some people expect God’s kingdom to appear instantly. So Jesus gives a parable speaking of a man who must secure his kingship and return and his slaves must look after his belongings. When he comes back he put his slaves on charge over cities according to their results. And one slave has no result, as a consequence, he takes what he gave him and he gives it to another slave. Then he has all his enemies executed in front of him. Then he asks two disciples to look for a colt and Jesus sits on it. Then Jesus speaks about the total destruction of Jerusalem. Then he enters the temple and throws out those who are selling. And the chief priests and the scribes and the principal ones of the people try to kill Jesus but they don’t succeed.

 

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Luke 20

When Jesus is in the temple teaching people the chief priests and the scribes with the elders ask him according to what authority he does everything he does. So he answers them by asking them according to what authority John baptizes. As they don’t answer from heaven so they say they don’t know so Jesus doesn’t answer them. Jesus tells people about a man who leases a vineyard to cultivators for a long time. When the time has come he asks them for some fruit of his vineyard but they give nothing. Each time he sends a slave and each time they don’t give anything and they abuse the different slaves. Finally he sends his son the beloved but they kill him thinking they will get the vineyard for themselves. So the owner will kill the cultivators and give the vineyard to others. Knowing he was speaking about them, the scribes and the chief priests send people to catch him in his speech so to be able to arrest him. And they ask him if it is lawful to pay taxes to Caesar. Jesus ask them for a coin and about the image on it. They say it is Caesar’s image so he tells them to pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar but God’s things to God. Then the Sadducees ask him about a man who has a wife and he dies. He has seven brothers and in turn they take the woman as wife but they die childless so in the resurrection who is she going to be the wife? In the resurrection no one marry or is given in marriage. Then he asks them why the Christ is David’s son. And then he tells his disciples to be careful of the scribes who want to be first and they will receive a MORE SEVERE JUDGMENT!

 

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Luke 21

Jesus sees people giving money for the temple: rich men give gifts out of their surplus whereas a poor widow gives a little money out of her want so he says that she gives more than all the others. Later he says that the temple is going to be destroyed. Then he is asked about the time of such an event. He speaks about people coming on the basis of his name will mislead many and about wars and earthquakes and food shortages and pestilences and they will be persecuted. And Jerusalem will be surrounded by a foreign army. It will be the sigh to flee in the mountains because after that Jerusalem will be destroyed and its inhabitants will suffer a lot. And Jesus warns them to stay awake so they can escape.

 

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Luke 22

Judah speaks to the chief priests to betray Jesus. The day of the Passover comes and Jesus ans his disciples have the meal. And Jesus says that one disciple is going to betray him. Then they discuss to know who the greatest is among them. And Jesus tells them that the one who wants to be first must minister the others. Then Jesus tells Peter to strengthen his brothers after going away from Jesus. And he tells peter that he will disown him three times. Then Jesus goes to Mount of olives and tells his disciples to pray and he goes alone to pray. When he comes back to his disciples they sleep. Then a crowd arrives and Judah leads it to get Jesus and the disciples ask Jesus if they must defend him and one cuts the right ear of the slave of the high priest but Jesus cures him. And he is brought to the house of the high priest. And peter follows them and he disowns Jesus three times. And Jesus is mocked and they speak badly about him. And he is brought in front of the Sanhedrin.

 

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Luke 23

Jesus is brought to Pilate and accused but Pilate finds no crime in him. Then he sends him to Herod who after mocking him sends him back to Pilate. He wants to release Jesus but the crowd asks for Barabbas to be released and Jesus to be killed. And again Jesus speaks about the destruction of Jerusalem. And two criminals are executed with Jesus. One of them speaks against Jesus and the other one asks him to remember him. And a man called Joseph asks Pilate for the body of Jesus and he puts him in a tomb.

 

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Luke 24

The women go to the tomb but it is opened and Jesus’ body is missing. Then two angels appear and tell them that Jesus has been raised up. And they remind them about what Jesus told him before his death. So Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and other women went to the Apostles to tell them. But they wouldn’t believe the women and it seems nonsense to them. S op eter went to the tomb and saw it opened with no body inside. Then the same day two disciples are speaking about the events in their way and Jesus comes to them and asks them what they are talking about but they don’t recognize him. So they tell him everything. Then he explains to them again. Then he spends the dinner with them. And then they recognize him but he disappears. So they come back to jerusalem and meet the 11 and the others and tell them everything. And Jesus appears among them and tells them to check his wounds in his hands.

 

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Luke 1

- Zechariah and his wife Elisabeth are going to have a child and they will name him John ( the angel gabriel tells Zechariah)
- Then Gabriel tells mary that she will give birth to a son and she must name him Jesus
- Mary goes to see Elisabeth and her son leaps in her womb and she is filled with holy spirit
- Mary stays wirh Elisabeth for three months
- John’s birth

Luke 2

- Joseph goes to Bethlehem with his family to register
- Jesus’ birth
- Simon prophesies about Jesus
- The prophetess Anna prophesies about jesus
- Jesus’ family goes back to Nazareth
- they go to Jerusalem and Jesus stays in the temple alone when he is twelve with teachers

Luke 3

- John starts baptizing people in symbol of repentance
- John tells people he has come to prepare the way for the Christ
- He is put to prison by Herod because he has condemned his deeds (Herod lives with his brother’s wife)
- Genealogy of Jesus

Luke 4

- Jesus is tempted by the devil for 40 days and 40 nights
- He begins to teach in synagogues
- He teaches in the synagogue in nazareth
- He uses the Bible to expalin that he was anointed by God to announce god’s Kingdom
- Later he cures a possessed man
- He cures Simon’s mother-in-law
- And he cures many
- And he preaches in synagogues

Luke 5

- Jesus teaches the crowd from a boat
- He tells Simon where to throw his nest and get fish
- He tells Simon and James and john to follow him
- He cures a leper
- He cures a paralyzed man
- He tells Levi a tax collector to be one of his disciples
- Dinner at levi’s house
- He explains Pharisees and scibes why he eats with sinners
- he tells them why his disciples don’t fast
- the illustration of the new and old wineskins

 

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Luke 6

- The Son of man is lord of the Sabbath
- Jesus cures a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath in a synagogue
- He chooses 12 of his disciples to become his apostles
- then he cures many people
- And he teaches
- A blind man can’t guide a blind man
- produce fruit
- build one’s house on the rock

Luke 7

- Jesus cures an army officer’s slave
- He resurrects a dead man
- John sends his disciples to Jesus to know if he was the Christ
- he compares himself and John the baptist and the attitude of the Pharisees and scribes
- He dines at a Pharisee’s house and a woman pours perfumed oil on his feet and weep on them
- Knowing what the Pharisee thinks he gives him an illustration about a lender who forgives two of his debtors

Luke 8

- Some women who weere cured by Jesus travel with Jesus and his disciples
- The illustration of the sower and the seeds
- He explains the meaning to his disciples who ask him
- Jesus’ mother and brothers want to see him
- Jesus calms down a storm
- He cures a possessed man and sends the demons into a herd of swine
- Jairus ask Jesus to for curing his daughter
- A woman touches him and is cured

Luke 9

- Jesus gives authority to the Twelve over all the demons and to cure diseases and sends them away
- Herod thinks that Jesus is John he has beheaded
- Jesus keeps teaching and curing the crowds
- Then he feeds 5,000 people by multiplying bread and fish
- He climbs a mountain with Peter, John and James to pray and Moses and Elijah appear
- Jesus cures a possessed child because his disciples can’t do it
- he tells his disciples he is going to be betrayed but they don’t understand because it is concealed from them
- A dispute among the disciples to know who is the greatest
- He tells his disciples to let those who expel demons in his name do it
- He tells people who want to follow him to leave everything

Luke 10

- Jesus designates 70 other disciples and sends them out by two ahead of him
- He gives them instructions
- And he condemns people of different cities because they don’t listen to him in spite of his powerful works
- How to inherit everlasting life
- the illustration of the good Samaritan
- They stay at the house of Mary and Martha, the first one listening to jesus and the second one doing many duties
- He tells Mary does the right thing

 

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Luke 11

- Model prayer
- Keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking
- he expels a speechless demon
- Some says he does it by means of Beelzebub
- A divided kingdom against itself falls
- this wicked generation will only get the sign of Jonah
- He condemns this generation
- The lamp of the body is the eye
- He eats at the house of a Pharisee
- Discussion on washing
- He accuses The Pharisees

Luke 12

- Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy
- Blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven
- No greed
- A rich landowner enjoys his wealth and makes projects but he is going to die soon
- Store up treasure in heaven
- The slaves must be ready for their master to come
- He comes to start a fire on the earth and cause division

 

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Luke 13

- Repentance
- The man, the vineyard, the vinedresser and the fig tree with no fruit
- He cures a woman who has been sick for 18 years
- Discussion about the Sabbath
- he calls them hypocrites
- A mustard grain
- Leaven with flour which ferments
- The narrow door
- I don’t know you
- Those last will be first and those first will be last
- destruction of Jerusalem

Luke 14

- Jesus eats in the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees
- he cures a man with dropsy and condemns the pharisees
- Invitation to a marriage feast and choosing the best place
- What people to invite to an evening meal
- illustration about the evening meal
- Be ready to disown oneself to follow Jesus

 

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Luke 15

- Jesus spends time with tax collectors and sinners
- The Pharisees and scribes criticizes him about it
- A man with 100 sheep loses one
- A woman with ten drachma coins loses one
- a man with two sons loses one

Luke 16

- The rich man and his steward
- The faithful in what is least and the unrighteous in what is least
- No servant can be a slave to two masters
- it is necessary to choose between God and Riches
- He condemns the Pharisees
- Divorce
- The rich man and the beggar Lazarus

 

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Luke 17

- Forgiving
- What we have done is what we ought to have done
- Ten men with leprosy, only one turning back to glorify God and it is a Samaritan
- Jesus must suffer because of this generation
- In the days of the Son of man like in the days of Noah, people were eating, drinking, getting married, and Noah entered into the ark and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 18

- Always pray and never give up
- The widow and the bad judge
- WHEN THE SON OF MAN ARRIVES WILL HE REALLY FIND THIS FAITH ON THE EARTH?
- The PHARISEE and the TAX COLLECTOR = real unrighteousness and real righteousness
- Jesus calls the children to him in spite of his disciples
- The RICH MAN and HOW TO GET EVERLASTING LIFE
- He will be HANDED over to men of the nations and MOCKED and TREATED INSOLENTLY and SPAT ON and SCOURGED and KILLED and will RISED on the third day
- But they did not understand because it was hidden from them
- The blind man

 

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Luke 19

- Jesus goes to Zacchaeus, a rich chief tax collector
- A noble man, a kingship, ten slaves to do business and enemies
- he tells two of his disciples to get a colt
- He sits on it and enters into Jerusalem people cheering him
- The siege of Jerusalem to come and also its destruction
- He throws the sellers out of the temple
- He keeps teaching in the temple

Luke 20

- They ask about his authority
- He asks them about John’s authority
- They don’t answer so he doesn’t answer
- A landowner and a vineyard and cultivators
- Pay taxes to Caesar or not
- A man and his wife, no children but seven brothers all get married with the same woman and die without children
- What happen in the resurrection? No one marry no one
- The Christ is David’s son and David calls him Lord
- Beware of the Pharisees who want to be the first

 

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Luke 21

- The needy widow and the surplus of the rich
- The destruction of the temple
- Many will come on the basis of Jesus’ name
- wars and earthquakes and food shortages
- His disciples will be persecuted
- When Jerusalem will be surrounded, the disciples will have to flee to the mountains
- The coming of the Son of man
- When trees are budding the summer is near same for God’s Kingdom
- Keep awake

Luke 22

- Judas goes to the chief priests to betray Jesus
- Jesus eat the Passover with his disciples
- He tells about his betrayer
- The greatest must minister the others
- peter will disown Jesus three times
- he tells his disciples to pray and goes a bit away to pray alone but when he comes back they sleeping
- Judas comes with a crowd to get it
- One of his disciples cuts an ear of the slave of the high priest and he puts it back
- They bring it to the house of the high priest
- Peter disowns Jesus three times

 

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Luke 23

- The multitude brings Jesus to Pilate
- Pilate sends him to Herod who mocks Jesus and sends him back to Pilate
- The crowd wants Pilate to release Barabbas
- He is brought to the place called skull and executed with two criminals
- One of them mocks Jesus but the other asks him to remember him
- Joseph goes to Pilate and asks for Jesus’ body and puts it in a tomb
- The next day the women go to the tomb

Luke 24

- But the tomb is opened and there is no body
- Two men in white tell them that Jesus has been raised up and they reminded them what he told them about his death
- So they go to the Eleven and all the rest to tell them
- But they don’t believe them
- Peter goes to the tomb
- Two disciples are traveling and discussing about the events
- Suddenly Jesus starts walking with them but they don’t recognize him
- And they tell him what has happened
- So he starts to explain them everything
- they ask him to stay with them
- they eat together and they recognize him but he disappears
- So they return to Jerusalem and tell the Eleven and then Jesus appears among them
- Then he asks them for checking his hands and feet

 

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Luke is the only one who speaks about the priest Zechariah and his wife Elisabeth. She is barren and they are old. Zechariah works at God’s temple. Gabriel, God’s angel, appears to him while he is working at the temple and he tells him that they are going to have a child because their supplication has been heard and they have to call him John. But he mustn’t drink alcohol and he will receive holy spirit before birth. And he will bring many Israelites back to God. Zechariah can’t believe it because he thinks they are too old. Because of his attitude he won’t be able to speak till the birth of the child. When he goes out, people understand he has had a vision.