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

Walk with Jesus to Jerusalem, the cross, and the empty tomb, guided by a teacher Christians have trusted for 170 years.

Volume I carried you through Luke 1 to 10. Now Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem, and every step brings Him closer to the cross. J.C. Ryle wrote this beloved commentary for the reader who wants to go deeper than the surface of Scripture without a seminary library or hours to spare, and this carefully modernized edition makes it easy to read again.

In this book you will:

• Move through Luke 11 through 24 one short passage at a time, from the Lord’s Prayer and the lost son to Gethsemane, Calvary, and the road to Emmaus, grasping what each passage means for your own life
• Get honest answers to the hardest sayings in Luke in Ryle’s explanatory notes, including the unjust steward, the call to “hate” father and mother, and the words of the Lord’s Supper
• Stand beside the dying thief, whom Ryle saw as one of the plainest pictures in Scripture of salvation by grace alone, and learn with him that no one who turns to Christ has come too late

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 1859 classic. It differs from every other edition in print:

• Compared word for word against two nineteenth-century printings, the original 1859 Ipswich edition and the 1862 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 Outdated words and phrasing are gently updated only where they would mislead a modern reader, and every editorial change was individually logged and verified against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.
• More than 500 explanatory notes reset so each begins on its own line under its verse number, finally easy to find and read.
• Nearly 800 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 with the companion 24-week study workbook (it covers both volumes), or studying privately without a shelf of reference works, this volume was built for you.

Get your copy now and finish the journey through Luke: plainly, deeply, and with joy.