Tag: Luke

Luke 20 It seems that prior to the parable of the wicked husbandmen the chief priests disliked the following that Christ has and wished to confound Him and disgrace Him but didn’t feel the need to kill Him. After He offered that parable they were angry enough that they decided to kill Him.

Luke 19 This payable of the pounds, which I had not heard, is similar to the parable of the talents. In fact, it is the same except that it illustrates more clearly that while each servant who made us of his talent was called faithful, each was blessed in proportion to his production.

Luke 18 When the rich man could not bear to sell all and follow Jesus, Peter declared that they (the apostles) had left everything to follow Him. Perhaps Peter was asking if they yet lacked anything to have eternal life.

Luke 16 – 17 I don’t understand the parable of the unjust steward. Was he commended for showing worldly wisdom in cheating his master or was the commendation for getting partial repayment rather than none? The lesson if the parable seems to be that we should understand how the world works and realize that there…

Luke 14 Even though the Pharisees as a body feared and hated Jesus they also recognized that the people viewed Him with great respect. that is why they invited Him to dine with them and even when they sought to trip Him up with their questions they hoped to appear as though they were simply…

Luke 13 I find it interesting that the leader of the synagogue told the people not to seek healing on the sabbath day. I think that displays a profound lack of empathy on his part. If some Pharisees were warning Jesus that Herod was out to kill Him, was that because they secretly believed in…

Luke 12 The rich man should have been thinking about the best way to make use of his goods rather than simply how to store them for his use. Likewise we should take whatever we are blessed with and look at it through the lens of “how do I best make use of this to…

Luke 15 Without the payable of the prodigal son with its moral that the older son would receive all that the father had the parables of the lost sheep and the lost silver could imply that Father in Heaven prefers His children to get lost before they return home – that the most direct route…

Luke 11 There must have been others who cat out devils who were accepted by the Pharisees – they would be the “sons” Jesus referred to when He asked by whom their sons cast out devils. I wonder if the Pharisee that invited Jesus to dine with him was one such as Joseph of Arimathaea…

Luke 10 Did Christ send the seventy to every place that He would later visit our to every place that He would wish to visit if He had the time? This telling has the lawyer answering Christ with the two great commandments rather than Christ answering the lawyer with the two great commandments. Martha was…