Daily Devotion

LUKE 22:39-46 The space in Jerusalem was so limited that there was no room for gardens. Many well-to-do people, therefore, had private gardens on the Mount of Olives. A wealthy friend had given Jesus the privilege of using such a garden. It was...

LUKE 22:31-38 We take the story of the tragedy of Peter all in one piece. Peter was a strange paradoxical mixture. (1 st ) Even in spite of his denial, he was fundamentally loyal. No matter what Peter did, however terrible his failure, he was...

LUKE 22:24-30 It is one of the most poignantly tragic things in the gospel story that the disciples could quarrel about the priority of importance in the very shadow of the cross. The disciples had been quarreling about where they were to sit, for...

LUKE 22:7-23 Once again Jesus did not leave things until the last moment; His plans were already made. The better class houses had two rooms. One room was on top of the other. The upper room was reached by an outside stairway. During the Passover,...

LUKE 22:1-6 It was at Passover time that Jesus came to Jerusalem to die. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is not, strictly speaking, the same thing as the Passover. The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted for a week, from the 15 th to 21 st April...

LUKE 21:25-37 There are two main conceptions here. (1 st ) There is the conception of the second coming of Jesus Christ . There has always been much useless argument and speculation about the second coming. When it will be and what it will be like...