The Gospel of Luke the Physician gives us a perspective of Jesus through the eyes of a doctor, so here are the top 15 Bible quotes from the Gospel of Luke.
15 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.
- Luke 1:26-27
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14 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
- Luke 14:26-27
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13 Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
- Luke 6:22-23
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12 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
- Luke 6:47-48
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11 And the angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Luke 1:35-36
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10 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
- Luke 4:1-2
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9 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. And he said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
- Luke 16:14-15
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8 One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
- Luke 16:10-11
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7 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
- Luke 12:23-24
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6 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
- Luke 12:39-40
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5 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
- Luke 4:18-19
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4 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Luke 21:36
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3 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
- Luke 18:1
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2 give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
- Luke 6:38
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1 But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27-28
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5 Stories From The Bible From The Gospel Of Luke
Here are 5 stories from the Bible from the Gospel of Luke.
Luke’s Purpose
Luke the Physician was also Luke the Historian. That’s not only my thoughts, but the thoughts of other Bible scholars too. Luke, in writing to Theophilus, states that “it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,” (Luke 1:3). This means that Luke wrote this gospel so “that [Theophilus] may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught” (Luke 1:4). He also wrote very accurate historical details so that we too “may have certainty concerning the things” we have been taught.
Glad Tidings
The Angel of the Lord once appeared to some shepherds who were abiding in the fields, and he said to them, “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10b-11). That announcement changed the world. Never before had God become Man in human flesh (John 1:14), but it was for the purpose of redeeming a people unto Himself, and that is only possible through Jesus Christ (John 6:44; Acts 4:12).
The Temptation
One example that proves Jesus is God and cannot be sin or be tempted by sin is the account of the Temptation in the Wilderness. Here, Satan throws His best three punches at Jesus, but He resists them all. He does so by quoting, in context, the Word of God, rebuffing the Devil. The Lord says, “It is written” three times (Luke 4:4, 8, 10) to Satan, and that can help us resist temptation so that we might not sin (Psalm 119:11).
The Good Samaritan
The Parable of the Good Samaritan must have astounded the disciples and the other Jews because the Samaritans were considered half-breeds, and unclean in their sight and in God’s, but Jesus throws them a curve. The Lord tells how the priest and the Levite, supposedly “holy men of God,” bypassed the wounded man, but the Samaritan, of all people, stopped to help the man, so Jesus asked them, “Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers” (Luke 10:36)? It was obviously the one they despised…the Samaritan; so Jesus says that they should “go, and do likewise” (Luke 10:37b).
He’s Not Here!
When the women from Galilee came to the tomb of Christ to anoint the Lord’s body (Luke 24:1), they heard an angel tell them, “He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee” (Luke 24:6). That’s news beyond “good.” Since He’s been raised from the dead, we too will be raised someday in new bodies with Christ (1 Corinthians 15).
I hope you liked these top 15 Bible quotes from the Gospel of Luke, and if you did, may I suggest you share these with someone today?
Written by Pastor Jack Wellman
