Luke wrote an orderly account and then built it deliberately: it opens in the Temple and closes in the Temple, with a long journey to Jerusalem occupying the middle third. This timeline follows that architecture rather than flattening Luke into a general life of Jesus.
Forty-three events across nine sections with 129 references. The material found only in Luke is marked as such throughout, which is most of the parables people know best: the Good Samaritan, the prodigal son, the rich fool, the persistent widow, Zacchaeus.
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Gospel of Luke Timeline · PDF
20 pages · 1.0 MB · US Letter
Free to print, copy and share for teaching, classroom and personal study. No signup, nothing to buy, and no attribution required. There is also an interactive version that is searchable and links every reference through to the text.
What is on the sheet?
43 events across 9 sections, carrying 129 chapter-and-verse references.
- IPrologue & AdventIt begins in the Temple — with an old priest and incense
- IIPreparationAnchored in world history — the fifteenth year of Tiberius
- IIIThe Galilean MinistryFrom the Nazareth manifesto to the Transfiguration
- IVThe Journey to Jerusalem — Part I“He resolutely set out for Jerusalem” — ten chapters on the road
- VThe Journey — Part II: The Banquet and the LostTable fellowship as theology — and the three lost things
- VIThe Final ApproachThrough Samaria and Jericho — the last miles
- VIIJerusalem — The King in His TempleEntry, tears, cleansing, controversy, and the Temple’s doom
- VIIIThe PassionFrom the upper room to the borrowed tomb
- IXRisen — Emmaus, the Upper Room, the AscensionIt ends where it began — in the Temple, with praise
Who is it for?
For a study group working through one Gospel rather than all four, and for anyone who has noticed that Luke keeps returning to the same themes and wants to see the structure that makes it deliberate.
How does it print?
It is laid out for US Letter at 20 pages, portrait, on a light background so it does not drink a toner cartridge. It prints cleanly in black and white, though the section colours carry meaning and are worth having in colour if you can. Every page footer carries the source, so a copy handed round a class can always be traced back.
