Luke 12 Luke 12 Luke 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records a number of teachings and parables told by Jesus Christ to "an innumerable multitude of people ... gathered together". The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organizes this chapter as follows (with cross references to parallel sections in Matthew's gospel): Scottish minister William Robertson Nicoll suggests this is "the largest crowd mentioned anywhere
Luke 21 "some people" i.e. not specifically disciples of Jesus. The "beautiful stones" and the "gifts dedicated to God" both contribute to the splendor of the temple. Matthew and Mark state that Jesus spoke privately to his disciples on Mount Olivet about the end times and the destruction of Jerusalem: see Olivet Discourse. Luke does not present this teaching as delivered privately: This parable was told by Jesus Christ and in the New Testament is found in Matthew , Mark , and Luke . This parable, about the Kingdom of God, involves a fig tree, as does the equally brief parable of