Outline
I. The Preface (1:1-4)
The Beginning of the Ministry in Galilee (4:14-41)The First Tour of Galilee (4:42;5:39)A Sabbath Controversy (6:1-11)The Choice of the 12 Apostles (6:12-16)The Sermon on the Plain (6:17-49)Miracles in Capernaum and Nain (7:1-18)The Inquiry of John the Baptist (7:19-29)Jesus and the Pharisees (7:30-50)The Second Tour of Galilee (8:1-3)The Parables of the Kingdom (8:4-21)The Trip across the Sea of Galilee (8:22-39)The Third Tour of Galilee (8:40;9:9)
V. His Withdrawal to Regions around Galilee (9:10-50)
The Narrow Door (13:22-30)Warning concerning Herod (13:31-35)At a Pharisee's House (14:1-23)The Cost of Discipleship (14:24-35)- The Parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin and the Lost Son (ch. 15)
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager (16:1-18)The Rich Man and Lazarus (16:19-31)Miscellaneous Teachings (17:1-10)Ten Healed of Leprosy (17:11-19)The Coming of the Kingdom (17:20-37)The Persistent Widow (18:1-8)The Pharisee and the Tax Collector (18:9-14)Jesus and the Children (18:15-17)The Rich Young Ruler (18:18-30)Christ Foretells His Death (18:31-34)A Blind Beggar Given His Sight (18:35-43)Jesus and Zacchaeus (19:1-10)The Parable of the Ten Minas (19:11-27)
The Triumphal Entry (19:28-44)The Cleansing of the Temple (19:45-48)The Last Controversies with the Jewish Leaders (ch. 20)The Olivet Discourse (ch. 21)The Last Supper (22:1-38)Jesus Praying in Gethsemane (22:39-46)Jesus' Arrest (22:47-65)Jesus on Trial (22:66;23:25)The Crucifixion (23:26-56)The Resurrection (24:1-12)The Post-Resurrection Ministry (24:13-49)The Ascension (24:50-53)
Luke
15 NLT
1 Tax collectors and other notorious
sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.
2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of
religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even
eating with them!
3 So Jesus told them this story:
4 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of
them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the
wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?
5 And when he has found it, he will
joyfully carry it home on his shoulders.
6 When he arrives, he will call together
his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my
lost sheep.’
7 In the same way, there is more joy in
heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over
ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!
8 “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins
and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search
carefully until she finds it?
9 And when she finds it, she will call in
her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my
lost coin.’
10 In the same way, there is joy in the
presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”
11 To illustrate the point further, Jesus
told them this story: “A man had two sons.
12 The younger son told his father, ‘I want
my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his
wealth between his sons.
13 “A few days later this younger son
packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all
his money in wild living.
14 About the time his money ran out, a
great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve.
15 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him,
and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
16 The young man became so hungry that even
the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him
anything.
17 “When he finally came to his senses, he
said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare,
and here I am dying of hunger!
18 I will go home to my father and say,
“Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,
19 and I am no longer worthy of being
called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’
20 “So he returned home to his father. And
while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love
and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
21 His son said to him, ‘Father, I have
sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called
your son. ’
22“But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick!
Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger
and sandals for his feet.
23 And kill the calf we have been
fattening. We must celebrate with a feast,
24 for this son of mine was dead and has
now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party
began.
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the
fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house,
26 and he asked one of the servants what
was going on.
27 ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told,
‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of
his safe return.’
28 “The older brother was angry and
wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him,
29 but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve
slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And
in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my
friends.
30 Yet when this son of yours comes back
after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the
fattened calf!’
31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear
son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.
32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For
your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is
found!’”
