Some days later Elizabeth becomes pregnant and she keeps herself secluded for five months. In her sixth month, the angel Gabriel goes to Nazareth to Mary who is a virgin promised in marriage to Joseph of David’s house. And he tells her that she will become pregnant and she will call him Jesus. He will be called Son of the Most High and God will give him the throne of David his father and he will rule forever. And he tells her that Elizabeth her relative has also conceived a son in her old age and this the sixth month.
Luke 1
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We go back to Luke as a decree goes out from Caesar Augustus for all the inhabited earth to be registered. So people have to go to their own city and Joseph goes from Galilee from the city of Nazareth into Judea, to David’s city which is called Bethlehem. He goes with his wife Mary who is soon to give birth. And she gives birth and the child is put in a manger because there is no room for them in the lodging place. There are SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT OF DOORS AND KEEPING WATCH IN THE NIGHT OVER THEIR FLOCKS. God’s angel appears among them so everybody is fearful. And he speaks about the child as Christ the Lord and a savior. Suddenly there is a multitude of the heavenly army praising God. So the shepherds go to Bethlehem and find Mary and Joseph and the infant lying in the manger. After eight days, when it is time to circumcise him, the child is named Jesus. And they bring him up to Jerusalem to present him to God. And they offer a sacrifice a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons. And Simeon is waiting for Jesus, he has been divinely inspired by the holy spirit that he won’t see death before seeing the Christ. And he takes the child in his arms and praises God. And Anna, a prophetess who is a widow and 84 years old also praises God. Then they go back into Galilee to their own city, Nazareth. And Jesus grows and gets stronger. Every year Joseph and Mary go to Jerusalem for the Passover. When Jesus is 12 they go again. After the Passover, they leave Jerusalem. After a day’s journey, they realize that Jesus is not with them. So they return to Jerusalem and they find him after three days. He is in the temple listening and asking questions to teachers. And people are amazed at his understanding and his answers. Answering to Joseph and Mary, he asks them: “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in the house of my Father?” And then he comes back with them.
Luke adds that John tells the people coming to him to share with others clothes and food. He also tells tax collectors to be fair. And he tells those in military service not to harass anybody or accuse anybody falsely. Herod puts him in prison because he condemns him because he lives with his brother’s wife.
- Luke doesn’t speak about John’s arrest.
- When he begin to teach in the synagogues, he is held in honor by all. In fact, it is quite interesting and it shows the progress in his message. Here we get an additional event in Nazareth. On the Sabbath day, Jesus enters the synagogue and reads the prophet Isaiah saying that God’s spirit is upon him and he has been anointed to declare the good news to the poor and to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind and to preach God’s acceptable year. So he presents himself and tells what he is going to do. And everybody is amazed and speaks well of him. And they want him to do what he did in Capernaum. But he says that no prophet is accepted in his home territory. And all at once things change, they get angry, they push him out of the city and lead him to the brow of the mountain and they try to throw him down. But he goes away. But Jesus is not here to make friends but he has a mission and it means speak frankly to the people. In Capernaum he teaches in a synagogue on the sabbath and he expels a demon and people are astonished. Nothing is said about the fact that he expels a demon on the sabbath. Usually the Pharisees argue with him about that. He goes to Simon’s home and he cures his mother-in-law who has a high fever. It is said he rebukes the fever. Then he cures many people and expels demons. And once again it is said he rebukes demons when they say he is the Son of God. And he goes away but they look for him. And he says he much preach to other cities and he goes on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
- When he begin to teach in the synagogues, he is held in honor by all. In fact, it is quite interesting and it shows the progress in his message. Here we get an additional event in Nazareth. On the Sabbath day, Jesus enters the synagogue and reads the prophet Isaiah saying that God’s spirit is upon him and he has been anointed to declare the good news to the poor and to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind and to preach God’s acceptable year. So he presents himself and tells what he is going to do. And everybody is amazed and speaks well of him. And they want him to do what he did in Capernaum. But he says that no prophet is accepted in his home territory. And all at once things change, they get angry, they push him out of the city and lead him to the brow of the mountain and they try to throw him down. But he goes away. But Jesus is not here to make friends but he has a mission and it means speak frankly to the people. In Capernaum he teaches in a synagogue on the sabbath and he expels a demon and people are astonished. Nothing is said about the fact that he expels a demon on the sabbath. Usually the Pharisees argue with him about that. He goes to Simon’s home and he cures his mother-in-law who has a high fever. It is said he rebukes the fever. Then he cures many people and expels demons. And once again it is said he rebukes demons when they say he is the Son of God. And he goes away but they look for him. And he says he much preach to other cities and he goes on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
THE MIRACLES PERFORMED BY JESUS
Luke 4 :31-35
- In Capernaum, a city of Galilee, Jesus teaches on the Sabbath and he cures a possessed man.
Luke 4:38,39
- In Simon’s home, he cures Simon’s mother-in-law who has a high fever.
Luke 4:40,41
- In the evening, he cures people with various diseases and possessed people.
Luke 5:12-15
- He cures a leper.
Luke 5:17-26
- He cures a paralyzed man.
Luke 6:6-11
-He cures a man with a withered hand on the sabbath in a synagogue.
Luke 6:17-19
- He cures many people.
Luke 7:1-10
- Jesus cures an army officer’s slave at distance in Capernaum and he is astonished by his faith.
Luke 7:11- 17
- He resurrects a dead man in Nain
Luke 8:22-25
- Jesus calms down a storm
Luke 8:27-39
- He cures a possessed man and sends the demons into a herd of swine
Luke 8:41-56
- Jairus ask Jesus to for curing his daughter
- A woman touches him and is cured
Luke 9:11
- Jesus keeps teaching and curing the crowds
Luke 9:13-17
- Then he feeds 5,000 people by multiplying bread and fish
Luke 9:38-42
- Jesus cures a possessed child because his disciples can’t do it
Luke 11:14-25
- He expels a speechless demon
Luke 13:10-17
- He cures a woman who has been sick for 18 years
Luke 14:1-6
- He cures a man with dropsy and condemns the pharisees
Luke 17:11-20
- Ten men with leprosy, only one turning back to glorify God and it is a Samaritan
Luke 18:35-43
- He cures a blind man
Luke 22:50-51
- One of his disciples cuts an ear of the slave of the high priest and he puts it back
When we compare the different accounts of the apostles, it is interesting to have different versions written by people with different personalities to find support. Thus when we look at the two accounts of Matthew 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10, there is absolutely no difference.
It is the same when Jesus calms down the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 and Luke 8:22-25.
It is the same when Jesus calms down the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 and Luke 8:22-25.
2- So Luke highlights Jesus’ miracle connected to a possessed man. First Jesus teaches in a synagogue on the Sabbath. Then there is a short dialogue between Jesus and the demon who says that Jesus is the Holy One of God. He asks him if he has come to destroy the demons so they know what is going to happen to them sooner or later. Then Jesus expels him. Luke adds that the demon comes out without hurting the man. And the news of it spreads away.
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Luke highlights how Jesus cures Simon’s mother-in-law’s high fever:
- He stands over her
-He rebukes the fever (as if it was a person)
- It leaves her
- Instantly she gets up and begins ministering to them
So everything happens all at once. What a great job! And Luke gives only the essential details!
Luke highlights how Jesus cures Simon’s mother-in-law’s high fever:
- He stands over her
-He rebukes the fever (as if it was a person)
- It leaves her
- Instantly she gets up and begins ministering to them
So everything happens all at once. What a great job! And Luke gives only the essential details!
5- Luke speaks about Jesus curing a paralyzed man:
- Men carry a paralyzed man on a stretcher and they are trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus
- There are too many people so they climb up to the roof and they lower him on the stretcher through the tiling
- When Jesus sees their faith, he says: “Man, your sins are forgiven.”
- Then the scribes say: “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?”
- Jesus answers them by saying to the paralyzed man: “I say to you, Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go to your home.”
- The paralyzed man stands up before them and he picks up what he has been lying on and goes to his home, glorifying God
Here we get more details because the scribes speak against Jesus.
- Men carry a paralyzed man on a stretcher and they are trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus
- There are too many people so they climb up to the roof and they lower him on the stretcher through the tiling
- When Jesus sees their faith, he says: “Man, your sins are forgiven.”
- Then the scribes say: “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?”
- Jesus answers them by saying to the paralyzed man: “I say to you, Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go to your home.”
- The paralyzed man stands up before them and he picks up what he has been lying on and goes to his home, glorifying God
Here we get more details because the scribes speak against Jesus.