Outline for the book of Luke
- 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)
- 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 4 NLT
14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled
with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the
whole region.
15 He taught regularly in their synagogues
and was praised by everyone.
16 When he came to the village of Nazareth,
his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up
to read the Scriptures.
17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was
handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was
written:
18 “The Spirit of the is upon me, for he
has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that
captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be
set free,
19 and that the time of the ’s favor has
come. ”
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back
to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him
intently.
21 Then he began to speak to them. “The
Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
22 Everyone spoke well of him and was
amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they
asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
23 Then he said, “You will undoubtedly
quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in
your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’
24 But I tell you the truth, no prophet is
accepted in his own hometown.
25 “Certainly there were many needy widows
in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half
years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them.
He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of
Sidon.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in
the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a
Syrian.”
28 When they heard this, the people in the
synagogue were furious.
29 Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced
him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push
him over the cliff,
30 but he passed right through the crowd
and went on his way.
31 Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in
Galilee, and taught there in the synagogue every Sabbath day.
32 There, too, the people were amazed at
his teaching, for he spoke with authority.
33Once when he was in the synagogue, a man
possessed by a demon—an evil spirit—began shouting at Jesus,
34 “Go away! Why are you interfering with
us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy
One of God!”
35 Jesus cut him short. “Be quiet! Come out
of the man,” he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the
crowd watched; then it came out of him without hurting him further.
36 Amazed, the people exclaimed, “What
authority and power this man’s words possess! Even evil spirits obey him, and
they flee at his command!”
37 The news about Jesus spread through
every village in the entire region.
38 After leaving the synagogue that day,
Jesus went to Simon’s home, where he found Simon’s mother-in-law very sick with
a high fever. “Please heal her,” everyone begged.
39 Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the
fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and prepared a meal for
them.
40 As the sun went down that evening,
people throughout the village brought sick family members to Jesus. No matter
what their diseases were, the touch of his hand healed every one.
41 Many were possessed by demons; and the
demons came out at his command, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But because
they knew he was the Messiah, he rebuked them and refused to let them
speak.
42 Early the next morning Jesus went out to
an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they
finally found him, they begged him not to leave them.
43 But he replied, “I must preach the Good
News of the Kingdom of God in other towns, too, because that is why I was
sent.”
44 So he continued to travel around,
preaching in synagogues throughout Judea.
Luke 5 NLT
1 One day as Jesus was preaching on the
shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the
word of God.
2 He noticed two empty boats at the
water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their
nets.
3 Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus
asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat
and taught the crowds from there.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said
to Simon, “Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some
fish.”
5“Master,” Simon replied, “we worked hard all
last night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you say so, I’ll let the nets down
again.”
6 And this time their nets were so full of
fish they began to tear!
7 A shout for help brought their partners
in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge
of sinking.
8 When Simon Peter realized what had
happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, “Oh, Lord, please leave
me—I’m too much of a sinner to be around you.”
9 For he was awestruck by the number of
fish they had caught, as were the others with him.
10 His partners, James and John, the sons
of Zebedee, were also amazed. Jesus replied to Simon, “Don’t be afraid! From
now on you’ll be fishing for people!”
11 And as soon as they landed, they left
everything and followed Jesus.
12 In one of the villages, Jesus met a man
with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his
face to the ground, begging to be healed. “Lord,” he said, “if you are willing,
you can heal me and make me clean.”
13 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am
willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
14 Then Jesus instructed him not to tell
anyone what had happened. He said, “Go to the priest and let him examine you.
Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been
healed of leprosy. This will be a public testimony that you have been
cleansed.”
15 But despite Jesus’ instructions, the
report of his power spread even faster, and vast crowds came to hear him preach
and to be healed of their diseases.
16 But Jesus often withdrew to the
wilderness for prayer.
17One day while Jesus was teaching, some
Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. (It seemed that
these men showed up from every village in all Galilee and Judea, as well as
from Jerusalem.) And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus.
18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man
on a sleeping mat. They tried to take him inside to Jesus,
19but they couldn’t reach him because of the
crowd. So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles. Then they lowered
the sick man on his mat down into the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the
man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.”
21 But the Pharisees and teachers of
religious law said to themselves, “Who does he think he is? That’s blasphemy!
Only God can forgive sins!”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking, so
he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts?
23 Is it easier to say ‘Your sins are
forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up and walk’?
24 So I will prove to you that the Son of
Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the
paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!”
25 And immediately, as everyone watched,
the man jumped up, picked up his mat, and went home praising God.
26 Everyone was gripped with great wonder
and awe, and they praised God, exclaiming, “We have seen amazing things
today!”
27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a
tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and
be my disciple,” Jesus said to him.
28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed
him.
29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home
with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and
other guests also ate with them.
30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of
religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and
drink with such scum? ”
31 Jesus answered them, “Healthy people
don’t need a doctor—sick people do.
32 I have come to call not those who think
they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to
repent.”
33 One day some people said to Jesus, “John
the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the
Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?”
34 Jesus responded, “Do wedding guests fast
while celebrating with the groom? Of course not.
35 But someday the groom will be taken away
from them, and then they will fast.”
36 Then Jesus gave them this illustration:
“No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old
garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t
even match the old garment.
37 “And no one puts new wine into old
wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and
ruining the skins.
38 New wine must be stored in new wineskins.
39 But no one who drinks the old wine seems
to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”
