The Book of Luke

Luke wrote 'in orderly sequence' after careful investigation, so that his reader would know the certainty of the things he had been taught. His Gospel is deliberate history, anchored to census, emperor, and governor, and it is the Gospel of the outsider: shepherds at the manger, a Samaritan as the neighbour, tax collectors at the table, a crucified thief in paradise. Luke's Jesus announces His mission at Nazareth from Isaiah, good news to the poor, and states it again at Jericho: 'the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.'

Luke gives us the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son, more of Jesus at prayer than any other Gospel, and a long road to Jerusalem that dominates the book's centre. These chapter-by-chapter commentaries trace the Saviour of the lost and the certainty of the things fulfilled among us.