Luke 9 is one of the longest chapters in the book. Luke included thirteen different events in the chapter, ranging from Jesus sending out the twelve on their first mission, to the feeding of the five thousand, to Peter confessing Jesus as the Christ, to the Transfiguration, to Jesus being rejected by a Samaritan village. That these events happened is confirmed in the other synoptic gospels, but once again Luke’s order differs. He told us in Luke 1, he had undertaken to write an orderly account that all had happened in Jesus’ life. In Luke 10, Jesus sends out seventy or seventy-two of His followers on a mission. Their return brings rejoicing. The rest of the chapter is devoted to two events found only in Luke: The Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the account of Martha and Mary. Luke 11 also has a number of events squeezed into a chapter, starting with the Lord’s Prayer and some additional teaching on prayer, and concluding with Jesus pronouncing woes against the religious leaders. The overall theme of Luke 12 is readiness, although we find the Parable of the Rich Fool in the chapter. We’re moving to the point in the book, where the focus is going to shift to Jesus setting His face toward Jerusalem, but not before an extended section of teaching in the next six and a half chapters.