Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Explain the purpose of Luke’s Gospel

• Understand why the temple leaders wanted Jesus crucified

• Gain insight into how to be a faithful disciple who pleases God

• Follow the clues to Jesus’s identity as the story of His words and deeds unfolds

• Explain the parables found only in the Gospel of Luke

• Understand how to treat the poor, the suffering, and the weak as Jesus would

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Background to Luke and Acts

• Luke, the Orphan of the Gospels

• Who Wrote the Gospel of Luke?

• Date of the Gospel of Luke

• Purpose of the Gospel of Luke

• Genre and Orality of Luke

Unit 2: Prologue and Infancy Narratives (Luke 1:1–2:52)

• Prologue and Announcement of John the Baptist

• Announcement of the Birth of Jesus

• Mary’s Visit to Elizabeth

• Birth of John the Baptist

• Birth of Jesus

• Piety and Division

• Jesus Speaks for Himself

Unit 3: Baptism, Roots, and Temptation (Luke 3:1–4:13)

• John the Baptist: One Who Goes Before

• Baptism of Jesus and the Divine Voice

• Genealogy of Jesus

• Temptation of Jesus

Unit 4: Galilean Ministry (Luke 4:14–9:50)

• Jesus Rejected in Hometown Synagogue

• Day in Capernaum

• Jesus Calls the First Disciples

• Miracles and Controversies (Part 1)

• Miracles and Controversies (Part 2)

• Sermon on the Plain (Part 1)

• Sermon on the Plain (Part 2)

• Healing of Centurion’s Servant and Raising of Widow’s Son

• Reflections on John the Baptist and Jesus

• Anointed by a Sinful Woman

• Kingdom Parables and the Word of God

• Four Miracles Revealing Jesus’s Power

• Toward the Confession of Peter

• Jesus’s Messiahship and the Disciples’ Confusion

Unit 5: Toward Jerusalem (Luke 9:51–14:35)

• Establishing Priorities

• Mission of the Seventy-Two

• The Good Samaritan, and Martha and Mary

• Jesus’s Teaching on Prayer

• Debate over Jesus’s Ministry

• Woes to Pharisees and Scribes

• Whom to Fear

• Rich Fool and Trustworthy God

• Parable of the Servants and Responding to the Times

• Repentance

• Healings and the Kingdom

• Compassion and the Kingdom

• Themes on Discipleship

Unit 6: Toward Jerusalem (Luke 15:1–19:44)

• Pursuing the Lost

• Parable of the Prodigal Son

• Unrighteous Steward and Kingdom Ethics

• Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

• Miscellaneous Teachings and Gratitude

• Judgment and the Son of Man

• Persistence, Humility, and Trust

• Challenging the Rich Ruler

• Warning of Suffering and Healing the Blind

• Zacchaeus and the Parable of the Ten Minas

• Entry into Jerusalem

• Prediction of Jerusalem’s Destruction

Unit 7: Last Week in Jerusalem (Luke 19:45–24:53)

• Temple Cleansing

• John the Baptist and the Parable of the Wicked Tenants

• Roman Taxes and Resurrection

• Psalm 110

• Hypocritical Scribes and a Poor Widow

• Introduction to Eschatological Discourse

• Toward the Destruction of Jerusalem

• Keep Watch for Son of Man’s Return

• Events Associated with the Last Supper

• Greatness, Kingdom Authority, and Prediction of Peter’s Denials

• Gethsemane, Jesus’s Arrest, and Peter’s Denials

• Mocking and Jewish Trial of Jesus

• Examination by Pilate

• Crucifixion and Burial of Jesus

• Women at the Tomb

• Emmaus Disciples

• Jesus Meets with the Disciples

Conclusion

• Theophilus Reassured

• Hearing Luke’s Heartbeat

Details

• Title: Book Study: The Gospel of Luke

• Instructor: Darrell L. Bock

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2018

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 10