Luke 9:1-6
THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE. Rules for the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE. Rules for the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN HE CALLED HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES TOGETHER, AND GAVE THEM POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER ALL DEVILS, AND TO CURE DISEASES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SENT THEM TO PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND TO HEAL THE SICK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE NOTHING FOR YOUR JOURNEY, NEITHER STAVES, NOR SCRIP, NEITHER BREAD, NEITHER MONEY; NEITHER HAVE TWO COATS APIECE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHATSOEVER HOUSE YE ENTER INTO, THERE ABIDE, AND THENCE DEPART.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE YOU, WHEN YE GO OUT OF THAT CITY, SHAKE OFF THE VERY DUST FROM YOUR FEET FOR A TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DEPARTED AND WENT THROUGH THE TOWNS, PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND HEALING EVERYWHERE. Jesus had chosen the Twelve out of the larger company of the disciples that usually followed Him. These Twelve, commonly designated by that term, He called together for a formal meeting. He gave them power and... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW HEROD THE TETRARCH HEARD OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY HIM; AND HE WAS PERPLEXED, BECAUSE THAT IT WAS SAID OF SOME THAT JOHN WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD;... [ Continue Reading ]
Herod's interest in Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OF SOME, THAT ELIAS HAD APPEARED; AND OF OTHERS, THAT ONE OF THE OLD PROPHETS WAS RISEN AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HEROD SAID, JOHN HAVE I BEHEADED BUT WHO IS THIS OF WHOM I HEAR SUCH THINGS? AND HE DESIRED TO SEE HIM. Herod was at this time probably living at Tiberius, a city which he had practically rebuilt to fit in with his great plans. Rumors of the activity of a certain rabbi in Galilee may have reache... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE APOSTLES, WHEN THEY WERE RETURNED, TOLD HIM ALL THAT THEY HAD DONE. AND HE TOOK THEM, AND WENT ASIDE PRIVATELY INTO A DESERT PLACE BELONGING TO THE CITY CALLED BETHSAIDA.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. The retirement of the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PEOPLE, WHEN THEY KNEW IT, FOLLOWED HIM; AND HE RECEIVED THEM, AND SPAKE UNTO THEM OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HEALED THEM THAT HAD NEED OF HEALING. When the apostles returned from their first missionary journey, they related to the Lord in detail what they had done and what success they had... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DAY BEGAN TO WEAR AWAY, THEN CAME THE TWELVE AND SAID UNTO HIM, SEND THE MULTITUDE AWAY THAT THEY MAY GO INTO THE TOWNS AND COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT, AND LODGE, AND GET VICTUALS; FOR WE ARE HERE IN A DESERT PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The miracle of the loaves and the fish:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE YE THEM TO EAT. AND THEY SAID, WE HAVE NO MORE BUT FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES; EXCEPT WE SHOULD GO AND BUY MEAT FOR ALL THIS PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN. AND HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, MAKE THEM SIT DOWN BY FIFTIES IN A COMPANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DID SO, AND MADE THEM ALL SIT DOWN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN HE TOOK THE FIVE LOAVES AND THE TWO FISHES, AND LOOKING UP TO HEAVEN, HE BLESSED THEM, AND BRAKE, AND GAVE TO THE DISCIPLES TO SET BEFORE THE MULTITUDE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DID EAT, AND WERE ALL FILLED; AND THERE WAS TAKEN UP OF FRAGMENTS THAT REMAINED TO THEM TWELVE BASKETS. Jesus had been busy preaching and healing without ceasing all day long. But now the day began to decline, to draw near its close, bringing an unwelcome interruption in the Lord's benefice... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WAS ALONE PRAYING, HIS DISCIPLES WERE WITH HIM; AND HE ASKED THEM, SAYING, WHOM SAY THE PEOPLE THAT I AM?... [ Continue Reading ]
PETER'S CONFESSION AND CHRIST'S ANSWER. The confession of Peter and the Twelve:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ANSWERING SAID, JOHN THE BAPTIST; BUT SOME SAY, ELIAS; AND OTHERS SAY THAT ONE OF THE OLD PROPHETS IS RISEN AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID UNTO THEM, BUT WHOM SAY YE THAT I AM? PETER ANSWERING- SAID, THE CHRIST OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE STRAITLY CHARGED THEM, AND COMMANDED THEM TO TELL NO MAN THAT THING,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, THE SON OF MAN MUST SUFFER MANY THINGS, AND BE REJECTED OF THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE SLAIN, AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY. It was some time before Jesus was able to withdraw from the neighborhood of the Sea of Galilee and find time for rest and uninterrupted intercourse... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID TO THEM ALL, IF ANY MAN WILL COME AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY, AND FOLLOW ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The cross-bearing of the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER WILL SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT; BUT WHOSOEVER WILL LOSE HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE, THE SAME SHALL SAVE IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHAT IS A MAN ADVANTAGED IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE HIMSELF, OR BE CAST AWAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL BE ASHAMED OF ME AND OF MY WORDS, OF HIM SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE ASHAMED WHEN HE SHALL COME IN HIS OWN GLORY AND IN HIS FATHER'S AND OF THE HOLY ANGELS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I TELL YOU OF A TRUTH, THERE BE SOME STANDING HERE WHICH SHALL NOT TASTE OF DEATH TILL THEY SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Christian discipleship is not all receiving and rejoicing, it involves also work and sacrifice. He that believes on Christ and wants to follow Him must deny his natural self, must... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, ABOUT AN EIGHT DAYS AFTER THESE SAYINGS, HE TOOK PETER AND JOHN AND JAMES, AND WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN TO PRAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRANSFIGURATION. The miracle itself:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE PRAYED, THE FASHION OF HIS COUNTENANCE WAS ALTERED, AND HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE AND GLISTERING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE TALKED WITH HIM TWO MEN, WHICH WERE MOSES AND ELIAS,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO APPEARED IN GLORY, AND SPAKE OF HIS DECEASE WHICH HE SHOULD ACCOMPLISH AT JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM WERE HEAVY WITH SLEEP; AND WHEN THEY WERE AWAKE, THEY SAW HIS GLORY, AND THE TWO MEN THAT STOOD WITH HIM. After these things had happened, after Peter had spoken the confession in the name of all the disciples, a matter of about eight days, on the eighth day aft... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY DEPARTED FROM HIM, PETER SAID UNTO JESUS, MASTER, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE; AND LET US MAKE THREE TABERNACLES, ONE FOR THEE AND ONE FOR MOSES AND ONE FOR ELIAS; NOT KNOWING WHAT HE SAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
The voice from heaven:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE HE THUS SPAKE, THERE CAME A CLOUD AND OVERSHADOWED THEM; AND THEY FEARED AS THEY ENTERED INTO THE CLOUD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE CAME A VOICE OUT OF THE CLOUD, SAYING, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON: HEAR HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE VOICE WAS PAST, JESUS WAS FOUND ALONE. AND THEY KEPT IT CLOSE, AND TOLD NO MAN IN THOSE DAYS ANY OF THOSE THINGS WHICH THEY HAD SEEN. Moses and Elijah, having spoken those things for which they were sent, departed to make way for a still greater manifestation of glory. But in the interv... [ Continue Reading ]
heds His blood and dies, though thou hast been His enemy and a condemned person. That is the love which is much greater and higher than heaven and earth and everything that might be named. " This application of the great truth Christ makes Himself. His disciples are His friends, if the evidence of t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AT THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD. BUT WHILE THEY WONDERED, EVERY ONE, AT ALL THINGS WHICH JESUS DID, HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES,... [ Continue Reading ]
The second prediction:... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THESE SAYINGS SINK DOWN INTO YOUR EARS; FOR THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THIS SAYING, AND IT WAS HID FROM THEM, THAT THEY PERCEIVED IT NOT; AND THEY FEARED TO ASK HIM OF THAT SAYING. The people were greatly astonished at the majesty of God, revealed in the power that could work such a cure. This majesty is the essence of Jesus, it is given to Him... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THERE AROSE A REASONING AMONG THEM WHICH OF THEM SHOULD BE GREATEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
LESSONS IN HUMILITY. The question as to the greatest:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, PERCEIVING THE THOUGHT OF THEIR HEART, TOOK A CHILD AND SET HIM BY HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE THIS CHILD IN MY NAME RECEIVETH ME; AND WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE ME RECEIVETH HIM THAT SENT ME; FOR HE THAT IS LEAST AMONG YOU, THE SAME SHALL BE GREAT. Just how great the spiritual denseness of the disciples was even at that time, appears from this inciden... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOHN ANSWERED AND SAID, MASTER, WE SAW ONE CASTING OUT DEVILS IN THY NAME; AND WE FORBADE HIM BECAUSE HE FOLLOWETH NOT WITH US.... [ Continue Reading ]
An interruption by John:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FORBID HIM NOT; FOR HE THAT IS NOT AGAINST US IS FOR US. The claim has been made that this is an unnatural transition, and that this incident is in the false place. But it fits very nicely. The present subject was by no means a pleasant one, and John thought by introducing t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE TIME WAS COME THAT HE SHOULD BE RECEIVED UP, HE STEADFASTLY SET HIS FACE TO GO TO JERUSALEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
Rejection by the Samaritans... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE HIS FACE; AND THEY WENT, AND ENTERED INTO A VILLAGE OF THE SAMARITANS TO MAKE READY FOR HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS AS THOUGH HE WOULD GO TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES JAMES AND JOHN SAW THIS, THEY SAID, LORD, WILT THOU THAT WE COMMAND FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND CONSUME THEM, EVEN AS ELIAS DID?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE TURNED, AND REBUKED THEM, AND SAID, YE KNOW NOT WHAT MANNER OF SPIRIT YE ARE OF.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SON OF MAN IS NOT COME TO DESTROY MEN'S LIVES, BUT TO SAVE THEM. AND THEY WENT TO ANOTHER VILLAGE. John and James, the "sons of thunder," had not yet learned the full lesson of humility, as this incident shows. When the days of His being received up were altogether fulfilled, when the days o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, AS THEY WENT IN THE WAY, A CERTAIN MAN SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, I WILL FOLLOW THEE WHITHERSOEVER THOU GOEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUE DISCIPLESHIP OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FOXES HAVE HOLES, AND BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HATH NOT WHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO ANOTHER, FOLLOW ME. BUT HE SAID, LORD, SUFFER ME FIRST TO GO AND BURY MY FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD; BUT GO THOU AND PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER ALSO SAID, LORD, I WILL FOLLOW THEE; BUT LET ME FIRST GO BID THEM FAREWELL WHICH ARE AT HOME AT MY HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS-SAID UNTO HIM, NO MAN, HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOW, AND LOOKING BACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See Matthew 8:19. All three incidents teach the same lesson: True discipleship of Christ implies a denial of self and all earthly ties, in certain circumstances even the obligations of... [ Continue Reading ]