📘 The Gospel of Luke — Words of Jesus
Luke 2 – 4 — His Birth and the Start of Ministry
Luke 2:49
“Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”
(Twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple.)
Luke 4:4
“It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
Luke 4:8
“It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’”
Luke 4:12
“It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Luke 4:18–19
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Luke 5 – 6 — Calling and Blessings
Luke 5:10
“Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.”
(Calling Peter.)
Luke 5:13
“I am willing. Be clean!”
(Healing a leper.)
Luke 5:31–32
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 6:20–23 — The Beatitudes (Luke’s version)
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you… Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.”
Luke 6:27–28
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”
Luke 6:31
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”
Luke 6:37–38
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged… Forgive, and you will be forgiven… For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 7 – 9 — Faith, Miracles, and Discipleship
Luke 7:50
“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
(To the forgiven woman.)
Luke 8:48
“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”
Luke 8:50
“Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
(To Jairus.)
Luke 9:23–24
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.”
Luke 9:48
“Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
Luke 9:62
“No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Luke 10 – 12 — Compassion, Prayer, and Warnings
Luke 10:2
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Luke 10:27
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Luke 10:37
“Go and do likewise.”
(After the Parable of the Good Samaritan.)
Luke 11:2–4 — The Lord’s Prayer
“Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.”
Luke 11:9–10
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Luke 12:22–23
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.”
Luke 12:34
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Luke 13 – 16 — Repentance and Parables
Luke 13:24
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.”
Luke 14:11
“For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Luke 14:27
“Whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”
Luke 15:7
“There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
Luke 15:32
“But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.”
(Parable of the Prodigal Son.)
Luke 16:13
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Luke 17 – 19 — Forgiveness, Faith, and Salvation
Luke 17:6
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”
Luke 17:21
“The kingdom of God is in your midst.”
Luke 18:16–17
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Luke 18:27
“What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 21 – 23 — The End Times and the Passion
Luke 21:33
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
Luke 22:19–20
“This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.
This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Luke 22:42
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Luke 23:34
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
(On the Cross.)
Luke 23:43
“Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
(To the repentant thief.)
Luke 23:46
“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”
(His final words before death.)
Luke 24 — The Resurrection
Luke 24:38–39
“Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Luke 24:49
“I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
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