Tag: Luke

How did I miss the fact that Herod wished to have Jesus come before him after he hard rumors that Jesus was John the Baptist come to life again. That suggests more guilt/remorse over killing John than I had expected.

While there were many people who came to hear Jesus when he taught nearby it sounds like there were some who followed him and were consistently at His side. Unsurprisingly the apostles were among that number but there were at least three women who were also in that inner circle. Mary Magdalene being the first…

Why did the centurion think himself unworthy to have Jesus comes to his home? Was it a matter of respect for some aspect of mosaic law?

It takes a twisted sort of logic to conclude that healing someone on the sabbath is a Bad Thing™ as if Heavenly Father is more concerned with static rules than with His children. The rules are meant to help the children, not prevent them from getting help. Why call ye me “lord, lord” and do…

When Jesus charged the leper to tell no man, but go to the priest and offer the sacrifices required in the mosaic law He might have been telling the man to not declare himself clean until he had done as required by the Law of Moses.

How did anyone know of the temptations of Jesus seeing as He was alone at the time? The answer had to be that He told people of the experience. That being the case, those may have simply been examples of the kind of temptations thrown at Him. I can’t imagine that in forty days alone…

The first message of John the Baptist was “the axe is laid unto the root of the tree and every tree that broken forth not good fruit shall be hewn down.” The people who listened to John were under no illusion about the impending judgment. I find it interesting that the translators for long James…

From the account of Luke it seems that Jesus had an unremarkable childhood except for three incidents (two of which took place before He was two weeks old). That makes sense as I recognize how much Jesus didn’t stand out prior to His ministry. It would require real spiritual insight to recognize how special He…

We focus on the thoughts and prayers of Zacharias as he was burning incense but I wonder if there was an abundance of prayers among the multitude outside for the coming of the Messiah.

The explanation the Venusian gives, that he is accustomed to giving orders and having them carried out, isn’t a full explanation of his faith. Even if he was accustomed to having orders carried out, his faith was that Jesus would be obeyed by nature herself. That’s not the same as having subordinates obey orders.