Laravel from Scratch — laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch-2017 from laracasts.com is the most comprehensive introduction to Laravel, I have ever seen.
The docs are also awesome. In fact the docs recommend the above video series; which can be completed in the duration of a weekend; provided you have a working knowledge of PHP!
If you are coming from a different programming language, you can quickly pick PHP up from the main PHP docs; it is a simple language, really!
You can accelerate your PHP learning by watching the following videos!
Hope this helps! :)