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)
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 8
1 Soon afterward Jesus began a tour of the
nearby towns and villages, preaching and announcing the Good News about the
Kingdom of God. He took his twelve disciples with him,
2 along with some women who had been cured
of evil spirits and diseases. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had
cast out seven demons;
3 Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s
business manager; Susanna; and many others who were contributing from their own
resources to support Jesus and his disciples.
4 One day Jesus told a story in the form
of a parable to a large crowd that had gathered from many towns to hear
him:
5 “A farmer went out to plant his seed. As
he scattered it across his field, some seed fell on a footpath, where it was
stepped on, and the birds ate it.
6 Other seed fell among rocks. It began to
grow, but the plant soon wilted and died for lack of moisture.
7 Other seed fell among thorns that grew
up with it and choked out the tender plants.
8 Still other seed fell on fertile soil.
This seed grew and produced a crop that was a hundred times as much as had been
planted!” When he had said this, he called out, “Anyone with ears to hear
should listen and understand.”
9 His disciples asked him what this
parable meant.
10 He replied, “You are permitted to
understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables to teach the
others so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: ‘When they look, they won’t
really see. When they hear, they won’t understand.’
11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The
seed is God’s word.
12 The seeds that fell on the footpath
represent those who hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it
away from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved.
13 The seeds on the rocky soil represent
those who hear the message and receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep
roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they face
temptation.
14 The seeds that fell among the thorns
represent those who hear the message, but all too quickly the message is
crowded out by the cares and riches and pleasures of this life. And so they
never grow into maturity.
15 And the seeds that fell on the good soil
represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and
patiently produce a huge harvest.
16 “No one lights a lamp and then covers it
with a bowl or hides it under a bed. A lamp is placed on a stand, where its
light can be seen by all who enter the house.
17 For all that is secret will eventually
be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to
light and made known to all.
18 “So pay attention to how you hear. To
those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for
those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken
away from them.”
19 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to
see him, but they couldn’t get to him because of the crowd.
20 Someone told Jesus, “Your mother and
your brothers are standing outside, and they want to see you.”
21 Jesus replied, “My mother and my
brothers are all those who hear God’s word and obey it.”
22 One day Jesus said to his disciples,
“Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and
started out.
23 As they sailed across, Jesus settled
down for a nap. But soon a fierce storm came down on the lake. The boat was filling
with water, and they were in real danger.
24 The disciples went and woke him up,
shouting, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” When Jesus woke up, he
rebuked the wind and the raging waves. Suddenly the storm stopped and all was
calm.
25 Then he asked them, “Where is your
faith?” The disciples were terrified and amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked
each other. “When he gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him!”
26So they arrived in the region of the
Gerasenes, across the lake from Galilee.
27 As Jesus was climbing out of the boat, a
man who was possessed by demons came out to meet him. For a long time he had
been homeless and naked, living in a cemetery outside the town.
28 As soon as he saw Jesus, he shrieked and
fell down in front of him. Then he screamed, “Why are you interfering with me,
Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Please, I beg you, don’t torture me!”
29 For Jesus had already commanded the evil
spirit to come out of him. This spirit had often taken control of the man. Even
when he was placed under guard and put in chains and shackles, he simply broke
them and rushed out into the wilderness, completely under the demon’s
power.
30 Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”
“Legion,” he replied, for he was filled with many demons.
31 The demons kept begging Jesus not to
send them into the bottomless pit.
32 There happened to be a large herd of
pigs feeding on the hillside nearby, and the demons begged him to let them
enter into the pigs. So Jesus gave them permission.
33 Then the demons came out of the man and
entered the pigs, and the entire herd plunged down the steep hillside into the
lake and drowned.
34 When the herdsmen saw it, they fled to
the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they
ran.
35 People rushed out to see what had
happened. A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been
freed from the demons. He was sitting at Jesus’ feet, fully clothed and
perfectly sane, and they were all afraid.
36 Then those who had seen what happened
told the others how the demon-possessed man had been healed.
37 And all the people in the region of the
Gerasenes begged Jesus to go away and leave them alone, for a great wave of
fear swept over them. So Jesus returned to the boat and left, crossing back to
the other side of the lake.
38 The man who had been freed from the
demons begged to go with him. But Jesus sent him home, saying,
39 “No, go back to your family, and tell
them everything God has done for you.” So he went all through the town
proclaiming the great things Jesus had done for him.
40 On the other side of the lake the crowds
welcomed Jesus, because they had been waiting for him.
41 Then a man named Jairus, a leader of the
local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come home
with him.
42 His only daughter, who was about twelve
years old, was dying. As Jesus went with him, he was surrounded by the
crowds.
43 A woman in the crowd had suffered for
twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure.
44 Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the
fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped.
45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Everyone
denied it, and Peter said, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against
you.”
46 But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately
touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.”
47 When the woman realized that she could
not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him.
The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been
immediately healed.
48 “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith
has made you well. Go in peace.”
49 While he was still speaking to her, a
messenger arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. He told
him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.”
50 But when Jesus heard what had happened,
he said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith, and she will be
healed.”
51 When they arrived at the house, Jesus
wouldn’t let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the little
girl’s father and mother.
52 The house was filled with people weeping
and wailing, but he said, “Stop the weeping! She isn’t dead; she’s only
asleep.”
53 But the crowd laughed at him because
they all knew she had died.
54 Then Jesus took her by the hand and said
in a loud voice, “My child, get up!”
55 And at that moment her life returned,
and she immediately stood up! Then Jesus told them to give her something to
eat.
56 Her parents were overwhelmed, but Jesus insisted
that they not tell anyone what had happened.
Luke 9 NLT
1 One day Jesus called together his twelve
disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal
all diseases.
2 Then he sent them out to tell everyone
about the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
3“Take nothing for your journey,” he instructed
them. “Don’t take a walking stick, a traveler’s bag, food, money, or even a
change of clothes.
4 Wherever you go, stay in the same house
until you leave town.
5 And if a town refuses to welcome you,
shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned
those people to their fate.”
6 So they began their circuit of the
villages, preaching the Good News and healing the sick.
7 When Herod Antipas, the ruler of
Galilee, heard about everything Jesus was doing, he was puzzled. Some were
saying that John the Baptist had been raised from the dead.
8 Others thought Jesus was Elijah or one
of the other prophets risen from the dead.
9 “I beheaded John,” Herod said, “so who
is this man about whom I hear such stories?” And he kept trying to see
him.
10 When the apostles returned, they told
Jesus everything they had done. Then he slipped quietly away with them toward
the town of Bethsaida.
11 But the crowds found out where he was
going, and they followed him. He welcomed them and taught them about the
Kingdom of God, and he healed those who were sick.
12 Late in the afternoon the twelve
disciples came to him and said, “Send the crowds away to the nearby villages
and farms, so they can find food and lodging for the night. There is nothing to
eat here in this remote place.”
13 But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “But we
have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Or are you
expecting us to go and buy enough food for this whole crowd?”
14 For there were about 5,000 men there.
Jesus replied, “Tell them to sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
15So the people all sat down.
16 Jesus took the five loaves and two fish,
looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into
pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples so they could
distribute it to the people.
17 They all ate as much as they wanted, and
afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers!
18 One day Jesus left the crowds to pray
alone. Only his disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do people say
I am?”
19 “Well,” they replied, “some say John the
Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other ancient
prophets risen from the dead.”
20 Then he asked them, “But who do you say
I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah sent from God!”
21 Jesus warned his disciples not to tell
anyone who he was.
22 “The Son of Man must suffer many
terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading
priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third
day he will be raised from the dead.”
23 Then he said to the crowd, “If any of
you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your
cross daily, and follow me.
24 If you try to hang on to your life, you
will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
25And what do you benefit if you gain the whole
world but are yourself lost or destroyed?
26 If anyone is ashamed of me and my
message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his
glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.
27 I tell you the truth, some standing here
right now will not die before they see the Kingdom of God.”
28 About eight days later Jesus took Peter,
John, and James up on a mountain to pray.
29And as he was praying, the appearance of his
face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white.
30 Suddenly, two men, Moses and Elijah,
appeared and began talking with Jesus.
31 They were glorious to see. And they were
speaking about his exodus from this world, which was about to be fulfilled in
Jerusalem.
32 Peter and the others had fallen asleep.
When they woke up, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with
him.
33 As Moses and Elijah were starting to
leave, Peter, not even knowing what he was saying, blurted out, “Master, it’s
wonderful for us to be here! Let’s make three shelters as memorials —one for
you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
34But even as he was saying this, a cloud
overshadowed them, and terror gripped them as the cloud covered them.
35 Then a voice from the cloud said, “This
is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him.”
36 When the voice finished, Jesus was there
alone. They didn’t tell anyone at that time what they had seen.
37 The next day, after they had come down
the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus.
38 A man in the crowd called out to him,
“Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, my only child.
39 An evil spirit keeps seizing him, making
him scream. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It
batters him and hardly ever leaves him alone.
40 I begged your disciples to cast out the
spirit, but they couldn’t do it.”
41 Jesus said, “You faithless and corrupt
people! How long must I be with you and put up with you?” Then he said to the
man, “Bring your son here.”
42 As the boy came forward, the demon
knocked him to the ground and threw him into a violent convulsion. But Jesus
rebuked the evil spirit and healed the boy. Then he gave him back to his
father.
43 Awe gripped the people as they saw this
majestic display of God’s power. Jesus Again Predicts His Death While everyone
was marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples,
44 “Listen to me and remember what I say.
The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies.”
45 But they didn’t know what he meant. Its
significance was hidden from them, so they couldn’t understand it, and they
were afraid to ask him about it.
46 Then his disciples began arguing about
which of them was the greatest.
47 But Jesus knew their thoughts, so he
brought a little child to his side.
48 Then he said to them, “Anyone who
welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who
welcomes me also welcomes my Father who sent me. Whoever is the least among you
is the greatest.”
49 John said to Jesus, “Master, we saw
someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he
isn’t in our group.”
50 But Jesus said, “Don’t stop him! Anyone
who is not against you is for you.”