Luke 10(ESV) Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two After this the Lord appointedseventy-two[a]others andsent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.2And he said to them,"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.3Go your way...

Luke 9(ESV) Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,2and he sent them out toproclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.3And he said to them,"Take nothing for your journey,no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.[a]4And whatever house you enter, ...

Luke 8(ESV) Women Accompanying Jesus Soon afterward he went onthrough cities and villages, proclaiming andbringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,2and alsosome women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities:Mary, called Magdalene,from whom seven demons had gone out,3andJoanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager,...

Luke 7(ESV) Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people,he entered Capernaum.2Now a centurion had a servant[a]who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.3When the centurion[b]heard about Jesus,he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.4And when they came ...

Luke 6(ESV) Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath On a Sabbath,[a]while he was going through the grainfields, his disciplesplucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.2But some of the Pharisees said,"Why are you doingwhat is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"3And Jesus answered them,"Have you not readwhat David did when he was hungry, he and those who were...

Luke 5(ESV) Jesus Calls the First Disciples On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing bythe lake of Gennesaret,2and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and werewashing their nets.3Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. Andhe...

Luke 4(ESV) The Temptation of Jesus And Jesus,full of the Holy Spirit,returned from the Jordan and was ledby the Spirit in the wilderness2forforty days,being tempted by the devil.And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended,he was hungry.3The devil said to him, "If you arethe Son of God, commandthis stone to become bread."4And Jesus answered him,"It...

Luke 3 (ESV) John the Baptist Prepares the Way In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the s...

Luke 2(ESV) The Birth of Jesus Christ In those daysa decree went out fromCaesar Augustus that all the world should beregistered.2This was the firstregistration when[a]Quiriniuswas governor of Syria.3And all went to be registered, each to his own town.4And Joseph also went upfrom Galilee, from the town ofNazareth, to Judea, tothe city of David, which is calledBethlehem,...

Luke 1(ESV) Dedication to Theophilus Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things thathave been accomplished among us,2just as those whofrom the beginning wereeyewitnesses andministers ofthe wordhave delivered them to us,3it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to writean orderly account for you,most ex...