Chapter ten contains three events that are unique to Luke. Each of them provides an example of Jesusā compassion for people, especially in reference to our relationship with him. The first event shows Jesus sending out 72 people 1, apparently in addition to the 12 apostles. The instructions Jesus gave this group are very similar to […]
Chapter nine is a brief survey of a dozen, mostly unrelated, events. Lukeās sixty-verse fly-over took Matthew nine chapters (see Matthew 10-18), although the order is different between the two writers. Considering that these are some of the most āfamousā or āpopularā events in the Gospels ā sending out the Twelve, the feeding of the
Chapters eight and nine conclude Jesusā ministry in Galilee with a series of events before he headed toward Jerusalem. No chapters in Luke contain as many distinct events as these two. The focus is not meant to be on the events themselves, so some of them are very short, lacking detail. Rather, Lukeās focus was
