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Continuing in the book of Luke here in the Bible room today, we are reading Session 3, the summaries of chapters 9 and 10.

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Luke

Session 3

Chapter 9. Authority

Jesus calls a group meeting of His twelve disciples:

• There, He gives them authority over demons and diseases;
• Then He sends them out to preach the gospel and to heal;
• His instructions: carry nothing, not even an empty bag;
• They are to stay wherever people will receive them;
• But if they are not received, they are to leave that town,
• Shaking the dust off their feet as a testimony against them;
• The ruler, Herod, hears things about a man he has not met;
• One story is that John, whom he had beheaded, has come back;
• The apostles return and begin to tell Jesus their stories;
• He wants to be alone with them, but the crowds gather around;
• Jesus receives the crowd and heals the sick brought to Him;
• Late in the day, He tells the disciples to feed the entire crowd;
• The disciples say they have a total of five loaves and two fish;
• The crowd numbers about five thousand men plus families;
• Jesus tells them to divide the people into groups of fifty;
• He blesses the food, brakes it for the disciples to hand out;
• After all have eaten, there are twelve baskets of leftovers;
• Later, Jesus is praying alone when the disciples join Him;
• He asks them who the crowds are saying He is;
• Their answer: People say He is various men from history;
• Jesus wants to know what the disciples are saying He is;
• Peter says He is the Christ of God;
• Jesus demands the disciples to keep this knowledge secret;
• He says He will be killed and then raised the third day;
• To follow Jesus, anyone must bear their cross daily;
• Later, He takes Peter, James, and John to a mountain to pray;
• There, Jesus’s clothes change, become glistening white;
• Moses and Elijah are talking with Him, speaking of His death;
• A voice from heaven says: This is My beloved Son, hear Him;
• They leave the mountain and keep these events secret;
• The next day, a large crowd again gathers around Jesus;
• The father of a young man with a demon brings him to Jesus;
• The disciples have been unable to remove this demon;
• Jesus removes the demon, heals the young man;
• The crowds are amazed at all the things Jesus has done;
• But Jesus tells his disciples He is about to be taken by men;
• As they walked along a road, Jesus invites a man to follow Him;
• The man agrees, but says first he must bury his father;
• Jesus tells the man to let the dead bury their own dead.

Chapter 10. Harvest

Later, Jesus appoints seventy-two others to go before Him into the cities:

• He says the harvest is great, but the laborers are few;
• He commissions them to go to the homes that receive them;
• They are to heal the sick, and say the kingdom of God is near;
• A city that rejects them will be treated worse than Sodom;
• The seventy-two return to Jesus with joyful reports:
• They say even the demons are subject to them in His name;
• Jesus says to rejoice because their names are written in heaven;
• He tells the disciples they are blessed by what they have seen;
• A lawyer asks Jesus how he can inherit eternal life;
• Jesus asks him how he reads and interprets the law;
• The lawyer says: Love God, and love your neighbor;
• Then he tests Jesus by asking: Who is his neighbor?
• Jesus tells him about a man walking on the road to Jericho;
• At some point he is accosted, beaten, robbed, left half dead;
• Two different religious leaders pass by, will not help him;
• Then a Samaritan comes along and provides aid to the man;
• Jesus asks the lawyer which of those was a good neighbor;
• He says the last one; Jesus tells him to go and do likewise;
• Later, Jesus is invited to the home of a woman named Martha;
• She has a sister named Mary who also worships Jesus;
• Martha gets busy preparing things to serve their guest;
• She asks Jesus to tell Mary she should help in serving;
• Jesus tells Martha that Mary has chosen to do well for Him;
• And He will not tell her to stop.

End of Session 3 of the book of Luke.