Sabbath controversies over grain-plucking and healing a man with a withered hand establish Jesus' authority as Lord of the Sabbath, while Pharisees and scribes fill with fury and discuss what they might do to Him. After a night of mountain prayer, Jesus chooses the Twelve apostles and descends to a level place where crowds from Judea, Jerusalem, Tyre, and Sidon seek healing. The Sermon on the Plain delivers blessings on the poor, hungry, weeping, and hated alongside woes against the rich, full, laughing, and popular, followed by commands to love enemies, bless persecutors, give to all who ask, and judge not, with the parable of the speck and log, the tree and its fruit, and the two foundations.
The Savior of all humanity
Virgin mother who treasured God's words in her heart
Physician and careful historian
King of Israel
Apostle, Rock of the Church
Brother of Peter
Leader of the Jerusalem Church
Author of the Gospel of Mark
Apostle from Bethsaida
The Tax Collector
The Doubting Apostle
The Betrayer of Jesus
Sidon was an ancient Phoenician port city, often mentioned with its sister city Tyre. Queen Jezebel was a Sidonian princess. Jesus visited the region and healed the daughter of a Syrophoenician woman. Sidon was known for its skilled craftsmen and maritime trade. Paul stopped briefly in Sidon on his voyage to Rome.
Teaching, miracles, choosing twelve, transfiguration.
Luke is the only Gentile author in the New Testament. A physician by profession, he wrote his Gospel and Acts specifically for a Gentile audience, tracing Jesus' genealogy all the way back to Adam, father of all humanity.
Luke
