Luke By Joyce Webb 2021 Chapter 18 Verses 1-14 Verse 1 Jesus told the disciples –“Men should always pray, and not faint.” The New Living Bible says “never give up”. When we have prayed for a long time for something—-and our prayer is not answered—we often give up believing that God will answer that prayer.
Luke By Joyce Webb 2021 Chapter 17 Verses 20-37 Verses 20-21 The Jewish leaders asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come? (They were expecting the Messiah to be an earthly king that would rule over the Jewish people—and Rome or other nations would not be over them.) Jesus’ answer to them was a
Luke By Joyce Webb 2021 Chapter 17 Verses 5-19 Verse 5 The disciples said to Jesus to “increase our faith”— help us have more faith. This is something most Christians want and pray for. We think if we had more faith—all our prayers would be answered. Verse 6 Jesus tells them–if your faith is as
Luke By Joyce Webb 2021 Chapter 17 Verses 1-4 Verse 1 Jesus said to the disciples—There will be offences that will come. The King James Version uses the word “offences“. Today—we would use that word “offences” to mean —things said, or things done—that hurt you, or hurt your feelings. Words that insult you. (offences) When
Luke By Joyce Webb 2020 Chapter 16 Verses 19-31 Verse 19-31 Jesus told this story. This story is a little different than other stories Jesus told. In this story, Jesus uses the name of the man. Before, in other stories, Jesus never used names of people. It makes us think that this story is true
Luke By Joyce Webb 2020 Chapter 16 Verses 1-18 Verse 1 Jesus told another story. A rich man learned that his steward (the man who was the manager of his household) was not being honest. He called the man in to talk to him. The steward saw that his master was angry, and that he
Luke By Joyce Webb 2021 Chapter 15 Verses 1-32 Verse 1,2 Many people were coming close to Jesus to hear him. The Jewish church leaders felt themselves to be better than the common people. They looked at all of them as “sinners” and “lower” than themselves. They criticized Jesus for being willing to be
Luke By Joyce Webb 2020 Chapter 14 Verses 25-35 Verse 25-26 Jesus is talking to a large group of people. He tells them that if they want to be his disciples and follow Him, they will have to hate their father, mother, brothers, sisters—etc. Sometimes in translating Greek and Aramaic into English we lose some
Luke By Joyce Webb 2020 Chapter 14 Verses 1-24 Verse 1 Jesus was going to have a meal at the home of a Jewish church leader, a Pharisee. It was on the Sabbath day. On the way, Jesus met a man who had dropsy. This is an old-fashioned word for what we call edema. It
Luke By Joyce Webb 2020 Chapter 13 verse 18-35 Verse 18 Jesus explains what the kingdom of God is like. The kingdom of God in these verses means all the people who become believers in Jesus as the Son of God. Jesus says this group of believers is like a mustard seed that a man