New Testament
Luke
The Gospel of the overlooked — and the best storytelling in the Bible.
Gospel · 24 chapters · About 2.5 hours
c. AD 60–80, by a physician and careful historian
Overview
Luke investigates. He interviews, orders, and writes so that a Gentile reader named Theophilus can have certainty.
His Gospel is crowded with the people other accounts pass over: shepherds, widows, Samaritans, a tax collector in a tree, a thief on a cross.
The parables only Luke keeps — the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son — are the ones the whole world remembers.
What it keeps returning to
The outsider
Luke's Jesus keeps eating with the wrong people, deliberately.
Prayer
Luke shows Jesus praying more than any other Gospel, at every hinge of the story.
Joy
The book opens and closes with people rejoicing. Even the angels sing.
Start here
Luke 1:46–55
Mary's song — a poor girl singing about thrones being toppled.
Luke 15
Three lost things, one running father.
Luke 24:13–35
The road to Emmaus, and hearts burning.
Go deeper in Luke
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”