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Luke 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the teachings and a miracle of Jesus Christ. [1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
Counting the Cost [a] is a passage in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 14:25–33) [1] which includes a pair of parables told by Jesus. The first title comes from the phrase "count the cost", which occurs in the King James Version of the passage, as well as some other versions .
Jesus and the rich young man (also called Jesus and the rich ruler) is an episode in the life of Jesus recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 19:16–30, the Gospel of Mark 10:17–31 and the Gospel of Luke 18:18–30 in the New Testament. It deals with eternal life [1] [2] and the world to come. [3]
The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (or the Pharisee and the Tax Collector) is a parable of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke 18 :9–14, [ 1 ] a self-righteous Pharisee , obsessed by his own virtue , is contrasted with a tax collector who humbly asks God for mercy .
Avenge me of mine adversary (anonymous), contracted by Pacific Press Publishing Company (1900) The parable of the unjust judge, by Jan Luyken, 1712. The Parable of the Unjust Judge (also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow or the Parable of the Persistent Woman, is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 18:1–8). [1]
Dramatic film adaptations of the Parable of the Good Samaritan include the short film Samaritan (2006), set in a modern context, per the literary device of the Modern Parables DVD Bible study series. [69] The English composer, Benjamin Britten, was commissioned to write a piece to mark the centenary of the Red Cross.
Mark 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It tells the parable of the Sower, with its explanation, and the parable of the Mustard Seed. Both of these parables are paralleled in Matthew and Luke, but this chapter also has a parable unique to Mark, the Seed Growing Secretly.
In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in 6:20–49. [1] This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. [2] Luke 6:12–20a details the events leading to the sermon. In it, Jesus spent the night on a mountain praying to God.