Luke
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Luke Highlights

• God strikes Zacharias dumb for doubting the angel Gabriel's words. 1:20

• John the Baptist says that Christ will burn the damned "with fire unquenchable." 3:17

• The genealogy of Jesus given here is entirely different than that in Mt.1:6-16. Luke lists 43 generations from David to Jesus, Matthew has only 29, and except for David at one end and Jesus at the other, only three names in the two lists are the same (and they are completely out of order). 3:23-31

• Peter and his partners (James and John) abandon their wives and children to follow Jesus. 5:11

• Jesus says that people who are rich, well-fed, happy, or respected are going to hell. 6:24-26

• John the Baptist, who is about to die, is still unsure about Jesus. 7:19

• He says that he speaks in parables so "that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand." 8:10

• He falsely predicts that some of his listeners would live to see him return and establish the kingdom of God. 9:27

• Entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" his disciples. 10:10-15

• The disciples are thrilled that "even the devils are subject" to them. To this Jesus replies, "I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions ... and nothing shall by any means hurt you."  10:17-19

• Jesus thanks God that only the ignorant and foolish will listen to him. 10:21

• Jesus calls his critics fools, thus making himself, by his own standards (Mt.5:22), worthy of "hell fire." 11:40

• He says that we should fear God since he has the power to kill us and then torture us forever in hell. 12:5

• He says that his disciples must hate their families (mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, children) and themselves. 14:26

• If you want to be a disciple of Jesus, you must abandon everything, including your family. 14:33

• "That which is highly esteemed among men [love, wisdom, honesty, courage, etc.] is an abomination in the sight of God." 16:15

• All of the vicious Old Testament laws will be binding forever. 16:17

• In the parable of the talents, Jesus says that God takes what is not rightly his, and reaps what he didn't sow. The parable ends with the words of Jesus: "bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by him] hither, and slay them before me." 19:22-27

• Jesus says that everyone will hate Christians, and some Christians will be killed, yet no Christian will be harmed in any way. 21:16

• He says that all that he describes (his return, signs in the sun, moon, and stars, etc.) will occur within the lifetime of his listeners. 21:32