Luke-Acts CEB (Common English Bible)

George Caird and his commentary on the gospel of Luke says that Satan comes to us in our weaknesses, but he came to Jesus and his strength. Jesus wanted to feed people who were hungry. Jesus is very compassionate. Jesus is the textbook definition of compassion. Jesus wanted to rule the nations in a compassionate wayinstead of the nations, being manipulated and abused and enslaved and massacred and...

We learn more of the ministry of John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus, and this way, and it’s connections to Isaiah the profit, we learn about sharing my shirt with someone else as what to do, which will be very similar to what Jesus says in Luke six in the section on loving my enemies. We also learn of Jesus genealogy and how it is connected to him being the son of God and an interesting...

The Christmas story that we have all heard, from Linus, speaking it to us from the wonderful Charlie Brown Christmas movie, to us hearing it in various churches, and in dispersed in various Christmas songs, listen to the words of our brother Luke describe the story not only of Jesus birth, but also of the regularmovement towards Jerusalem, that Jesus grew up with that Jesus earned to be in connect...

John the Baptist prepares the WAY of peace even in the womb by putting his joy into his muscles. The WAY is a big theme of Luke-Acts. Sorry about some of the errors. I’m reciting it from memory and sometimes my memory is a bit faulty. “Fill the hungry with good things, but sent the rich away empty handed” This is another theme in Luke Acts - societal reversal.