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Jesus Heals Many. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 4 verses 38-44. 38. Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. 39. So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. 40. At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had vario...

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 4 verses 31-37. 31. Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 32. They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority. 33. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, 34. “Go away! What do yo...

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 4 verses 14-30. 14. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15. He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. 16. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He sto...

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 4 verses 1-13. 1. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2. where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. 3. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become brea...

The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 3 verses 21-38. 21. When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened. 22. and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” 23. Now Jesus himself was about thir...

The Cost of Following Jesus. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 9 verses 57-62. 57. As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58. Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 59. He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60. Je...

John the Baptist Prepares the Way. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 3 verses 1-20. 1.In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene. 2. during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zech...

The Boy Jesus at the Temple. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 2 verses 41-52. 41. Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it...

Jesus Presented in the Temple. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 2 verses 21-40. 22. When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. 23. (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”. 24. and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in...

The Birth of Jesus. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 2 verses 1-21. 1. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3. And everyone went to their own town to register. 4. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Be...

The Birth of John the Baptist. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 1 verses 57-80. 57. When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy. 59. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, 60. but his...

Mary Visits Elizabeth. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 1 verses 39-56. 39. At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea,. 40. where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you a...

The Birth of Jesus Foretold. The Gospel according to Luke. Luke chapter 1 verses 26-38. 26. In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,. 27. to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is wit...

Israel’s Unbelief. The gospel according to Paul. Romans chapter 9 verse 30-33 to chapter 10 verses 1-21 30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31. but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. 32. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but a...

Paul’s Anguish Over Israel. The gospel accoring to Paul. Romans chapter 9 verses 1-18. 1. I speak the truth in Christ I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit. 2. I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race,. 4. the people of Israel. Theirs is th...

More Than Conquerors. The gospel accoring to Paul. Romans chapter 8 verses 31-39. 31. What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?. 32. He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justif...

Present Suffering and Future Glory. The gospel accoring to Paul. Romans chapter 8 verses 18-30. 18. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who...

Life Through the Spirit. The gospel accoring to Paul. Romans chapter 8 verses 7-17. 1. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2. because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the liken...

Slaves to Righteousness. A letter to the romans from Paul. Romans chapter 6 verses 15-23. 15. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!. 16. Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?. 1...

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ. A letter to the romans from Paul. Romans chapter 6verses 1-14. 1. What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2. By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3. Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?. 4. We were therefore buried with him thr...

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ. A letter from Paul to the Romans. Romans chapter 5 verses 12-21. 12. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. 13. To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14. Neverthel...

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ. A letter from Paul to the Romans. Romans chapter 5 verses 12-21. 12. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. 13. To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14. Neverthel...

Peace and Hope. The letter of Paul to the Romans. Romans chapter 5 verses 1-11. 1. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2. through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that...

Abraham Justified by Faith. The letter of Paul to the Romans. Romans chapter 4 verses 1-25. 1. What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter?. 2. If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. 3. What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 4. N...

Righteousness Through Faith. The Gospel according to Paul. The leter of Paul to the romans. Romans chapter 3 verses 21-31. 21. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23. for all have sinned and...