The Bible in a Year

New Testament

Luke 12 to 19
Read this coming week:
Feb 21 Lev 7, Ps 48, Luke 12 Feb 22 Lev 8‐9, Ps 49, Luke 13 Feb 23 Lev
10‐11, Ps 50, Luke 14 Feb 24 Lev 12‐13, Ps 51, Luke 15 Feb 25 Lev 14, Ps
52, Luke 16 Feb 26 Lev 15‐16, Ps 53, Luke 17 Feb 27 Lev 17‐18, Ps 54,
Luke 18 Feb 28 Lev 19‐20, Ps 55, Luke 19

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Psalms 48 to 55. Answer
the following:
• What “Law” is Jesus speaking in 12 when He is
speaking those parables? What should we be
concerned about?
• How does Jesus seem to fit the role of prophet in
Luke 12-13?
• What is the “cost of discipleship”? How do we
incur that cost today?
• What do the parables in 15 have to do with each
other?
 • How do you explain the Parable of the Dishonest
manager?
• When “one is left” at the end of 17, is the one left
dead or alive?
• What is the lesson to be learned in the Parable of
the Persistent Widow?
• Why will “[the Romans] not leave one stone upon
another,” according to Jesus?
The Synoptics – “Seeing
together”
There are four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life and three
of those accounts are called “Synoptics”. The word
“Synoptic” literally means “seeing together.” The three
synoptic Gospels are: Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

As you may have noticed in our reading together thus

far, these three Gospel accounts are very similar in
content. When we get to the Gospel of John, however,
we will find various differences between it and these 3
Gospels.

Luke’s Gospel is made up of 41% of the same

information that you find in the other two Gospels (so
this 41% is the same information, while 59% is
information that is found in only one of the other two
(23%) or is completely unique to Luke (35%).

Many theories have been postulated about why the

Synoptics are so similar. One very likely theory is that
the Gospel writers used some of the same sources, or
even used each other as source material. It appears
that Mark was written first, then Matthew, then Luke.
Mark and Matthew were written by eyewitnesses, but
Luke was not. It is very likely that at least Luke would
have used the material in Mark and Matthew to
compose the source material for his Gospel account.
However the process happened, we know that it
happened through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and
therefore can always see each of the Gospel accounts
as reliable for teaching and learning about the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ.

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