Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke, Vol. I (Annotated)

Finally read the Gospel of Luke with confidence, guided by a teacher Christians have trusted for 170 years.

You want to go deeper than the surface of Scripture, but you have neither a seminary library nor hours to spare. J.C. Ryle wrote this beloved commentary for exactly that reader, and this carefully modernized edition makes it easy to read again.

In this book you will:

• Move through Luke 1 through 10 one short passage at a time, grasping what each passage says and why it matters for your own life
• Get honest answers to the hard verses in Ryle’s explanatory notes, which often open the Greek, weigh the great commentators, and face every difficulty head on
• See the heart of the Gospel clearly: forgiveness comes first, and love and holiness follow, freeing you from the exhausting effort to earn God’s favor

Every section follows the same clear shape: the KJV passage, Ryle’s warm exposition, then the notes. You will always know where you are and what is coming next.

WHAT MAKES THIS EDITION UNIQUE
This is a newly prepared, annotated, and modernized edition of Ryle’s 1858 classic. It differs from every other edition in print:

• Compared word for word against two nineteenth-century printings, the original 1858 Ipswich edition and the 1879 New York edition, because no clean copy of Ryle’s Luke survives in digital form.
• Ryle’s own voice, untouched. Outdated words and phrasing are gently updated only where they would mislead a modern reader, and every editorial change was individually logged and verified against the original printings. The King James text is unchanged.
• Nearly 300 explanatory notes reset so each begins on its own line under its verse number, finally easy to find and read.
• All 445 Scripture references checked against the verses they quote, with printer’s errors corrected where the quoted words prove the right reference.
• A new Foreword and a full biography of Ryle. The Foreword explains exactly what was changed, what was deliberately left alone, and why.

Why trust Ryle? An Eton and Oxford man who lost a banking fortune and entered ministry, he spent thirty-eight years as a country pastor before Prime Minister Disraeli named him the first Bishop of Liverpool. Spurgeon called him “the best man in the Church of England.” His books have never gone out of print.

Whether you’re leading family devotions at the table, guiding a small group through Luke with the companion 24-week study workbook, or studying privately without a shelf of reference works, this volume was built for you.

Get your copy now, and read Luke the way generations have loved it: plainly, deeply, and with joy.