Download Audio A tree and its fruit Luke chapter 6, verses 43-45 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good […]
Download Audio The calling of Levi Luke chapter 5, verses 27-32 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at […]
Download Audio PART TWO The Servant at Work, Getting People Ready for God’s Kingdom: Preaching, Teaching, Healing, Reaching, Training (chapter 4, verse 14 through chapter 19, verse 27) Service in Galilee Jesus rejected at Nazareth Luke chapter 4, verses 14-30 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him […]
Download Audio John the Baptist prepares the way Luke chapter 3, verses 1-20 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word […]
Download Audio The birth of Jesus Luke chapter 2, verses 1-7 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph […]
Download Audio PART ONE Preparation for Service (chapter 1, verse 1 through chapter 4, verse 13) Preface to Luke’s gospel Introduction Luke chapter 1, verses 1-4 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who […]
Download Audio The WELS Mission for the Visually Impaired presents The Peoples Bible – Luke, by Victor H. Prange. Published by Northwestern Publishing House, Copyright 1988. EDITOR’S PREFACE The People’s Bible is just what the name implies—a Bible for the people. It includes the complete text of the Holy Scriptures in the popular New International […]
Download Audio Jesus rises from the dead Matthew chapter 28, verses 1-10 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the […]
Download Audio Jesus is forsaken by the Father Matthew chapter 27, verses 45-49 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama, sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” When […]
Download Audio Judas hangs himself Matthew chapter 27, verses 1-10 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death. They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor. When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw […]