Bible Commentaries
Luke

Luke 1:10 The Church’s Power

Luke 1:17 A Prepared People

Luke 1:20 Dumb, Because of Unbelief

Luke 1:26; Luke 1:28 Highly favoured of the Lord

Luke 1:30-31 The Promised Son

Luke 1:30-31 A New Power

Luke 1:32 In Confirmation of Faith

Luke 1:33 And Endless Kingdom

Luke 1:35, r.v. The Virgin Birth

Luke 1:35, r.v. The Incarnation and Brotherhood

Luke 1:38 Woman’s True Avocation

Luke 1:46-55 The Song of the Virgin

Luke 1:70 Modern Prophets

Luke 1:74-75 Deliverance and Service

Luke 1:76 The Prophet of the Highest

Luke 1:79 The Way of Peace

Luke 1:80 The Virtues of Asceticism

Luke 2:7 No Room!

Luke 2:7 Crowded Out

Luke 2:8-9, r.v. The Angelic Vision

Luke 2:11 The Birthday of Christ

Luke 2:10-11 The Unseen from Heaven

Luke 2:13 The Christmas Song

Luke 2:14 Pleas for Peace

Luke 2:14 A Religion of Peace

Luke 2:15 The Turning Point in the World’s History

Luke 2:16 The Holy Family

Luke 2:16 The Shepherds’ Visit

Luke 2:18-20 Christmas Thoughts and Feelings

Luke 2:21 The Name Above every Name

Luke 2:22 The Purification and the Presentation

Luke 2:22 Fulfilling the Law

Luke 2:25‘The Consolation of Israel’

Luke 2:32 Walking in the Light

Luke 2:34 Falling or Rising

Luke 2:42-51 The Temple and the Home

Luke 2:46 Christ Lost and Found

Luke 2:46 The Boyhood of Christ

Luke 2:49 A Divine Necessity

Luke 2:49 A Condition of Life

Luke 2:49 The Purpose of Life

Luke 2:51-52 At Nazareth

Luke 2:52 Increasing in Wisdom

Luke 3:1-2 The Word of God

Luke 3:3 The Baptist’s Message

Luke 3:4-6 Earnestness in Religion

Luke 3:10‘What shall we do?’

Luke 3:15-16 A Mightier than John

Luke 3:19-20 A Sharp Contrast

Luke 3:21-22 The First Calvary

Luke 4:1-2 Christ in the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-2 The Conflict

Luke 4:2-4 Tempted through the Body

Luke 4:7 Tempted through the World

Luke 4:9-12 Tempted through Presumption

Luke 4:21 Prophecy Fulfilled

Luke 4:21 Divine Enduement

Luke 4:24-27 Faith and Grace

Luke 4:32 The Power Behind

Luke 5:1 On Hearing Sermons

Luke 5:1 The Modern Sermon

Luke 5:1 Concentrative Christianity

Luke 5:3 Christ’s Work in the World

Luke 5:4 Launch Out!

Luke 5:4 Christ and Christ’s World

Luke 5:5‘At Thy Word’

Luke 5:5‘Nevertheless’

Luke 5:8 God and Ourselves

Luke 5:8 Conviction of Sin

Luke 5:10 The Function and Significance of Miracle

Luke 5:10 Fishers of Men

Luke 5:10 The Minister’s Calling

Luke 5:16 Spiritual Solitude

Luke 5:32 Christ’s Call

Luke 5:39 The Excellence of the Liturgy

Luke 6:12 The Praying Christ

Luke 6:26 The Dangers of Popularity

Luke 6:36-42 Divine Precepts

Luke 6:36 Mercy

Luke 6:36 Mercy—Its Scope and Quality

Luke 6:38 Judgment

Luke 6:38 Reciprocity

Luke 6:40 Like unto the Master

Luke 6:40 The Finished Christian

Luke 6:42 The Sin of Hypocrisy

Luke 7:4-9 Three Estimates of Character

Luke 7:11 The Prince of Life

Luke 7:12 Life from the Dead

Luke 7:12 The Weeping Widow

Luke 7:13‘Weep Not’

Luke 7:19 The Final Revelation

Luke 7:35 Children of Wisdom

Luke 7:35 Perverseness and Sympathy

Luke 7:37-38 Tears of Penitence

Luke 7:42 Nothing to Pay

Luke 7:47 The Result of Forgiveness

Luke 7:50 Christ and the Penitent

Luke 7:50 Go in Peace

Luke 8:5 The Sower and the Seed

Luke 8:5 Beneath the Surface

Luke 8:5 The Soil of the Heart

Luke 8:5-6 Sowers for the Kingdom

Luke 8:8 An Honest and Good Heart

Luke 8:10 Mysteries made Known

Luke 8:11 The Word as the Seed

Luke 8:12 Satan’s Evil Work

Luke 8:13 Roots of the Christian Life

Luke 8:14 Half-hearted Christians

Luke 8:15 Generous Soil

Luke 8:15 Be Patient

Luke 8:18 Take Heed!

Luke 8:24 Christ and the Elements

Luke 8:25 Faith and its Evidences

Luke 8:39 Testimony at Home

Luke 8:45 The Power of a Touch

Luke 8:45 Christ the Healer

Luke 9:2-6 The Commission of the Twelve

Luke 9:13 No Power in Ourselves

Luke 9:23 The Christian Life

Luke 9:26 Grounds of Judgment

Luke 9:29 The Vision on the Mount

Luke 9:32 The Mount and the Plain

Luke 9:33 A Mistaken View

Luke 9:34 The Overshadowing Cloud

Luke 9:41 The Care of the Child

Luke 9:48-50 The Pride of the Disciples

Luke 9:51 The Fascination of the Cross

Luke 9:54 Sons of Thunder or Sons of Christ?

Luke 9:55-56 Not Destruction but Salvation

Luke 9:62 Lessons from the Plough

Luke 9:62 Spiritual Ploughmen

Luke 10:1 The Mission of the Seventy

Luke 10:5 A Cordial Salutation

Luke 10:9 Characteristics of the Message

Luke 10:18 A True Sense of Proportion

Luke 10:20 Temptations of a Useful Life

Luke 10:21 The Joy of the Lord

Luke 10:21 The Joy of the Lord’s People

Luke 10:23-24 Privileges and Responsibility

Luke 10:27 The First and Great Commandment

Luke 10:27 The Law of Life

Luke 10:28 Knowledge and Practice

Luke 10:29 Self Justification

Luke 10:29 The Development of Character

Luke 10:29 A Moral Revelation

Luke 10:30 A Picture of Brotherly Love

Luke 10:30 The Wounded Traveller

Luke 10:30 The Samaritan’s Deed

Luke 10:35 Take Care of Him

Luke 10:35 God’s Repayments

Luke 10:36-37 The Worker and the Work

Luke 10:37 Practical Christianity

Luke 10:38-42 The Two Sisters

Luke 10:38-42 True Service

Luke 11:1 A Hearty Desire to Pray

Luke 11:2 The Lord’s Prayer

Luke 11:2 What is the Lord’s Prayer?

Luke 11:2 The Hallowed Name and the Hallowed Life

Luke 11:2 God’s Empire

Luke 11:2 The Subjection of Man’s Will

Luke 11:3 Man Dependent

Luke 11:4 Sin and its Forgiveness

Luke 11:4 Temptation

Luke 11:8 The Friend at Midnight

Luke 11:8 Importunity in Prayer

Luke 11:9 Commanding Prayer

Luke 11:14 The Effect of Permitted Sin

Luke 11:21-22 The Strong Man Overcome

Luke 11:23 For or Against?

Luke 11:23 No Neutrality

Luke 11:24-25 The Human House

Luke 11:26 The Last State

Luke 11:26 The Return of the Devil

Luke 11:27-28 Hearing and Keeping God’s Word

Luke 11:27-28 The Power of the Book

Luke 11:29 Asking for a Sign

Luke 11:36 Spiritual Light

Luke 11:54 The New Liberty

Luke 12:4-5 The Fear of Hell

Luke 12:8 Confessing Christ

Luke 12:10 The Unpardonable Sin

Luke 12:15 A Man’s Life

Luke 12:15 What will you do with your Life?

Luke 12:18-20 The Rich Fool

Luke 12:18-20 The Rich Man’s Folly

Luke 12:18-20 What the Rich Man Forgot

Luke 12:32 The Ministry and the Kingdom

Luke 12:35-36 Ideals Lost and Recovered

Luke 12:35-36 Burning Lights

Luke 12:43 The Responsibility of Opportunity

Luke 12:50 Christ’s Baptism of Suffering

Luke 13:3; Luke 13:5 The Judgments of God

Luke 13:3; Luke 13:5 The Galilæans’ Warnings

Luke 13:6-9 The Spiritual Growth of Life

Luke 13:6-9 The Barren Fig Tree

Luke 13:8 One more Chance

Luke 13:11-14 The Uplifting Power of the Gospel

Luke 13:18-19 The Gospel in the World

Luke 13:20-21 The Gospel in the Heart

Luke 13:23 A Puzzling Question

Luke 13:23-24 The Puzzling Question Answered

Luke 13:23-24 The Answer of the Life

Luke 13:35 The Desolate House

Luke 14:1 Sabbath Works and Words

Luke 14:3 The Spirit of Sunday Observance

Luke 14:10 In the Lowest Room

Luke 14:10-11 Humility and its Reward

Luke 14:10-11 The Doom of Pride

Luke 14:10-11 Man’s Abasement

Luke 14:14 The General Resurrection

Luke 14:15 Eating Bread in the Kingdom

Luke 14:16 The Great Supper

Luke 14:17 The Great Invitation

Luke 14:17 The Satisfaction of the Gospel

Luke 14:17 Why Men Hesitate

Luke 14:18 Innocent Occupations

Luke 14:18 Excuses

Luke 14:22 Where and For Whom there is Room

Luke 14:22 The Largeness of God’s Love

Luke 14:23 Compelled Guests

Luke 14:28; Luke 14:30 Tower Building

Luke 14:28; Luke 14:30 The True Aim of Discipleship

Luke 14:28; Luke 14:30 Examples of Counting the Cost

Luke 14:33 The Genius of the Christian Religion

Luke 14:33 The Final Condition of Discipleship

Luke 15:2 Exclusiveness and Formality

Luke 15:2 Penitence and Communion

Luke 15:2 Christ receiveth Sinful Men

Luke 15:4 The Sheep that was Lost

Luke 15:6 The Sheep Found

Luke 15:8 The Lost Coin

Luke 15:8 The Preciousness of Each Soul

Luke 15:6-9 Lost and Found

Luke 15:10 The Doctrine of Sin

Luke 15:11 The Two Sons

Luke 15:17 The Prodigal Son

Luke 16:1-8 The Man who Acted Wisely

Luke 16:2 Called to Account

Luke 16:4 A Good Resolution

Luke 16:8 The World and the Church

Luke 16:9 Make Friends

Luke 16:14-15 God’s Ways and Men’s Ways

Luke 16:19-20 Living and Dying

Luke 16:19-20 Dives and Lazarus

Luke 16:30-31 Vain Hopes

Luke 16:30-31 The Testimony of Scripture

Luke 17:1-2 Offenders of Others

Luke 17:5 The Growth of Faith

Luke 17:10 Self-Righteousness Checked

Luke 17:12-14 The Cleansed Men

Luke 17:15-16 At the Feet of Jesus

Luke 17:17 Ingratitude

Luke 17:17 A Defect in Christian Character

Luke 17:20-21 The Coming of the Kingdom

Luke 17:20-21 Truths of the Kingdom

Luke 17:20-21‘Your Reasonable Service’

Luke 17:22 A Day of the Son of Man

Luke 17:26; Luke 17:28; Luke 17:30 Three Critical Days

Luke 18:1‘Pray, Always Pray’

Luke 18:8 Religious Unsettlement

Luke 18:8 The Decay of Faith

Luke 18:10 Like Purpose, Different Method

Luke 18:13 The Plea for Mercy

Luke 18:14 Misconceptions Removed

Luke 18:14 A Churchman’s Failure

Luke 18:16 Lessons from Children

Luke 18:19 The Young Ruler

Luke 18:31-34 The Christian Attitude towards Suffering

Luke 18:31-34 The Future

Luke 18:35 Spiritual Blindness

Luke 18:41 Seeking Sight

Luke 19:2 Zacchæus

Luke 19:6 Zacchæus and Christ

Luke 19:10 Christ’s Mission of Mercy

Luke 19:13 A Motto for Life

Luke 19:17 Faithfulness in Little Things

Luke 19:38 The Coming King

Luke 19:41 Why Jesus Wept

Luke 19:41 Christian Responsibility

Luke 19:41 The Tears of Jesus

Luke 19:41 Indifference

Luke 19:41 Woes of a Great City

Luke 19:42 The Commandingness of Christ

Luke 19:44 Times of Visitation

Luke 19:44 Is God Visiting Us?

Luke 19:45-46 Cleansing the Temple

Luke 19:46 A House of Prayer

Luke 20:8 The Sufficiency of Revelation

Luke 20:15 The Wicked Husbandmen

Luke 20:25 No Division of Allegiance

Luke 20:36 The Life of the World to Come

Luke 20:37 Burning and not Consumed

Luke 20:38 Alive unto God

Luke 21:4 Christ’s Standard of Giving

Luke 21:5-6 The Presence of Christ

Luke 21:19 Patience

Luke 21:27 The Coming of the Son of Man

Luke 21:27 Neglect not Prophecy

Luke 21:28 Redemption

Luke 21:33-34 Eternal Words

Luke 21:38 Examples of Early Services

Luke 22:2-5 Planning the Betrayal

Luke 22:15 Christ and the Passover

Luke 22:19 In Remembrance of Me

Luke 22:19 The Communion Feast

Luke 22:24 The True Way to Greatness

Luke 22:31-32 Strengthen thy Brethren

Luke 22:36 Buy a Sword

Luke 22:44 The Agony of Christ

Luke 22:61 The Saviour’s Look

Luke 23:11 Setting Jesus at Nought

Luke 23:21 Spiritual Impulses

Luke 23:21 True and False Enthusiasm

Luke 23:26 Bearing the Cross after Jesus

Luke 23:28 True Patriotism

Luke 23:33 The Green Hill far Away

Luke 23:34 The First of the Seven Words

Luke 23:34 Ignorance and Cruelty

Luke 23:34 The Unknown Sins of our Social System

Luke 23:34 Trustful, Persevering, Selfless

Luke 23:34 The Scope of the Saviour’s Prayer

Luke 23:34 Typical Words of Christ

Luke 23:42 Recognised at Last

Luke 23:43 The Second Word from the Cross

Luke 23:43 First-fruits of the Passion

Luke 23:43 The Royalty of Goodness

Luke 23:43 Divided by the Cross

Luke 23:43 The Word of Grace

Luke 23:43 The Sinner Restored

Luke 23:46 The Last Word from the Cross

Luke 23:46 The Upward Look

Luke 23:46 The Death of Christ

Luke 23:46 The Look Forward

Luke 23:46 Peace and Security

Luke 23:46 Obedient unto Death

Luke 23:46 Father!

Luke 23:48 Lessons from the Cross

Luke 23:56 Sabbath Rest

Luke 24:5-6 The Appeal of Easter

Luke 24:11 The Apostles at Home

Luke 24:15-16 The Walk to Emmaus

Luke 24:29 Abide with Us

Luke 24:32 Burning Hearts

Luke 24:32 Unrecognised Blessings

Luke 24:34 Risen Indeed

Luke 24:39 The Hands of the Risen Christ

Luke 24:46-47 The Gospel of the Cross

Luke 24:47 At Jerusalem

Luke 24:49 Spiritual Power

Luke 24:49 The Greatness of Power

Luke 24:49 Spiritual Investiture

Luke 24:49 The Mission of the Holy Ghost

Luke 24:50-51 The Ascension

Luke 24:50-51 Gifts and Graces of the Ascended Lord

Luke 24:52 To Jerusalem with Great Joy