| › Introduction - Each of the four Gospels has its own purpose. Accordingly, this evangelist, Luke, though writing as another witness of the same divine truths, gives t ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - Luke 1,2 - I may consider these chapters together.
And, in the very opening, I observe something which is strikingly characteristic. Luke addresses his friend T ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - Luke 3 - A long interval has now passed before we reach the time of this chapter. Like that of Moses in his youth, as I may call it, the course of Jesus had be ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - Luke 4 - But Satan could not allow all this. Jesus owned as Son of God, and that, too, in connection with the human family, as Adam had been (3: 22, 38), Satan ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Luke 5 - We now enter on the fifth chapter, the materials of which, generally, we find in other Gospels. I would specially notice only what is characteristic.
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| › Chapter 5 - Luke 6 - Here we again have what we have in Matthew and Mark. But I observe that the appointment of the apostles is made after prayer; and this is not noticed ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Luke 7 - This chapter opens with another instance, in our evangelist, of disregard of mere circumstances and order of time; for the place which the case of the ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - Luke 8 - Entering on this chapter I would observe that in the case of the poor sinner, which closes the preceding one, we see deep personal affection as the fr ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Luke 9:1-50 - In the opening of this chapter, we get, in order, the mission of the Twelve. But the Lord does not here, as in Matthew, limit their labours, to "the l ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - Luke 9:51-9:62 - At this place, what has been suggested as the fourth part of our Gospel begins. The Lord, having ended His more formal ministry in Galilee, begins His ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Luke 10 - This chapter gives us in order the mission of the Seventy. But it is only here that we get this; for the Lord, as I have already observed, in this Gos ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Luke 11:1-13 - It is the Lord's way in this Gospel, as I have already noticed, to bring His mind into contact with all the exercises of the hearts and consciences of ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Luke 11:14-54 - These verses give us other scenes, still illustrating, according to the way of our evangelist, matter of value to us.
The Lord. listens to two challe ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Luke 12 - It is, however, to pursue His way as a Teacher, though in other places, that the Lord thus retires from among the scribes, the lawyers, and the Pharis ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - Luke 13 - The teaching of the previous chapter was all very important to our souls; and now, at the opening of this, we are in the same season as we read, and s ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - Luke 14-16 - In these chapters we have the Lord's characteristic way in this Gospel very strongly marked. Throughout them He is the teacher, the social Son of man ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - Luke 17:1-10 - The reflection with which the Lord opens these verses appears to have been suggested to His mind by these scenes of Luke 14 - 16. All that had been pa ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - Luke 17:11-19 - These few verses form another distinct portion of our Gospel. The Lord is again looked at on His way to Jerusalem, passing through Samaria and Galilee ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Luke 17:20-18:8 - In this portion we again get another subject for our thoughts, as disciples of the Great Teacher, Who was ordering all for our edification. "The kingd ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - Luke 18:9-30 - Here we find another subject in like manner distinctly considered.
There are three scenes in this portion of our Gospel, two of which we have in Matt ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - Luke 19:1-27 - The stages of the Lord's journey are her every distinctly marked. He is seen, as in the preceding chapter, approaching Jericho, and now passing throug ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - Luke 19:28-Luke 20 - Jesus enters the city with royal state. The fifth period of our Gospel begins with this action. See page 181. The multitude take the tone of the occas ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - Luke 21 - Thus have we seen it--the Lord of Israel, the Lord of the earth and its fulness, rejected by earth's citizens; and He Who once visited them with a day ...read |
| › Chapter 23 - Luke 22,23 - These chapters find their likeness, to a general intent, in Matt. 26, 27 and in Mark 14, 15. But still, as ever, there are distinctive marks and notic ...read |
| › Chapter 24 - Luke 24 - WE have now reached the closing chapter of our Gospel, and there, as in the corresponding place of each Gospel, we find the Lord in resurrection.
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