Footnotes Luke 1:1 Or been surely believed Luke 1:35 Or So the child to be born will be called holy, Luke 1:69 Horn here symbolizes a strong king. Luke 1:80 Or in the Spirit
More clearly than the other evangelists, Luke portrays the kindness of Jesus to sinners, showing him as the image of the limitless kindness of God. Jesus comes through as the Savior of sinners who seeks out the lost, the despised, and the outcasts and comforts them with the message of forgiveness.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That ...
Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content Luke 2 New International Version The Birth of Jesus 2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of ...
Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content Luke 1:26-38 New International Version The Birth of Jesus Foretold 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
