012:020 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
is required of you. The things which you have prepared--
whose will they be?'
012:021 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not
rich toward God."
012:022 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious
for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body,
what you will wear.
012:023 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
012:024 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap,
they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them.
How much more valuable are you than birds!
012:025 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
012:026 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
you anxious about the rest?
012:027 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil,
neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
012:028 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field,
which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
012:029 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink;
neither be anxious.
012:030 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
012:031 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
012:032 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
012:033 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy.
Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure
in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches,
neither moth destroys.
012:034 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
012:035 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
012:036 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns
from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks,
they may immediately open to him.
012:037 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when
he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
012:038 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
and finds them so.
012:039 But know this, that if the master of the house had known
in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and not allowed his house to be broken into.
012:040 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour
that you don't expect him."
012:041 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us,
or to everybody?"
012:042 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his lord will set over his household, to give them
their portion of food at the right times?
012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so
when he comes.
012:044 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
012:045 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,'
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
012:046 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't
expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will
cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
012:047 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare,
nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
012:048 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes,
will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given,
of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted,
of him more will be asked.
012:049 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
012:050 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed
I am until it is accomplished!
012:051 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth?
I tell you, no, but rather division.
012:052 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
012:053 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father;
mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
012:054 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising
from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,'
and so it happens.
012:055 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,'
and it happens.
012:056 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance
of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't
interpret this time?
012:057 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
012:058 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate,
try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps
he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer,
and the officer throw you into prison.
012:059 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there,
until you have paid the very last penny.{literally, lepton.
A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman
quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion.
Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural
worker's daily wages.}"
013:001 Now there were some present at the same time who told
him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed
with their sacrifices.
013:002 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were
worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered such things?
013:003 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish
in the same way.
013:004 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them;
do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men
who dwell in Jerusalem?
013:005 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish
in the same way."
013:006 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it,
and found none.
013:007 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I
have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
013:008 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I
dig around it, and fertilize it.
013:009 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can
cut it down.'"
013:010 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
013:011 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way
straighten herself up.
013:012 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman,
you are freed from your infirmity."
013:013 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight,
and glorified God.
013:014 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had
healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six
days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days
and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
013:015 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites!
Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall
on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
013:016 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan
had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage
on the Sabbath day?"
013:017 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed,
and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things
that were done by him.
013:018 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall
I compare it?
013:019 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took,
and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree,
and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
013:020 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
013:021 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three
measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a
bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."
013:022 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching,
and traveling on to Jerusalem.
013:023 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
He said to them,
013:024 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you,
will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
013:025 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut
the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at
the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer
and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
013:026 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence,
and you taught in our streets.'
013:027 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
013:028 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you
see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom
of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
013:029 They will come from the east, west, north, and south,
and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
013:030 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first,
and there are some who are first who will be last."
013:031 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him,
"Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
013:032 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out
demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third
day I complete my mission.
013:033 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day,
for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.'
013:034 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones
those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather
your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood
under her wings, and you refused!
013:035 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you,
you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26}
014:001 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers
of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they
were watching him.
014:002 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
014:003 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
014:004 But they were silent. He took him, and healed him,
and let him go.
014:005 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son{TR reads "donkey"
instead of "son"} or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately
pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
014:006 They couldn't answer him regarding these things.
014:007 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed
how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
014:008 "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit
in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than
you might be invited by him,
014:009 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you,
'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame,
to take the lowest place.
014:010 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place,
so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend,
move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence
of all who sit at the table with you.
014:011 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted."
014:012 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make
a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers,
nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might
also return the favor, and pay you back.
014:013 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame,
or the blind;
014:014 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources
to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection
of the righteous."
014:015 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard
these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast
in the Kingdom of God!"
014:016 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper,
and he invited many people.
014:017 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who
were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'
014:018 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said
to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it.
Please have me excused.'
014:019 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must
go try them out. Please have me excused.'
014:020 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
014:021 "That servant came, and told his lord these things.
Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant,
'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
014:022 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded,
and there is still room.'
014:023 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
014:024 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will
taste of my supper.'"
014:025 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and
said to them,
014:026 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father,
mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his
own life also, he can't be my disciple.
014:027 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me,
can't be my disciple.
014:028 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit
down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
014:029 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able
to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
014:030 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
014:031 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war,
will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten
thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
014:032 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy,
and asks for conditions of peace.
014:033 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has,
he can't be my disciple.
014:034 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless,
with what do you season it?
014:035 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile.
It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
015:001 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him
to hear him.
015:002 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man
welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
015:003 He told them this parable.
015:004 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one
of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness,
and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
015:005 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
015:006 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors,
saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep
which was lost!'
015:007 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven
over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous
people who need no repentance.
015:008 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth
about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she
lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house,
and seek diligently until she found it?
015:009 When she has found it, she calls together her friends
and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found
the drachma which I had lost.'
015:010 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels
of God over one sinner repenting."
015:011 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
015:012 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share
of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
015:013 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this
together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted
his property with riotous living.
015:014 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine
in that country, and he began to be in need.
015:015 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country,
and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
015:016 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate,
but no one gave him any.
015:017 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm
dying with hunger!
015:018 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him,
"Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
015:019 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one
of your hired servants."'
015:020 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still
far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion,
and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
015:021 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
015:022 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe,
and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes
on his feet.
015:023 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
015:024 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.' They began to celebrate.
015:025 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house,
he heard music and dancing.
015:026 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
015:027 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has
killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back
safe and healthy.'
015:028 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father
came out, and begged him.
015:029 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have
served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours,
but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate
with my friends.
015:030 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living
with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
015:031 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is
mine is yours.
015:032 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this,
your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.'"
016:001 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man
who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this
man was wasting his possessions.
016:002 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you?
Give an accounting of your management, for you can no
longer be manager.'
016:003 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that
my lord is taking away the management position from me?
I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
016:004 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management,
they may receive me into their houses.'
016:005 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first,
'How much do you owe to my lord?'
016:006 He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres,
104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.'
He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly
and write fifty.'
016:007 Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said,
'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels.
} of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
016:008 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely,
for the children of this world are, in their own generation,
wiser than the children of the light.
016:009 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of
unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive
you into the eternal tents.
016:010 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much.
He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
016:011 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will commit to your trust the true riches?
016:012 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,
who will give you that which is your own?
016:013 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise
the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon"
refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}."
016:014 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things,
and they scoffed at him.
016:015 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves
in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts.
For that which is exalted among men is an abomination
in the sight of God.
016:016 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time
the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone
is forcing his way into it.
016:017 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for
one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
016:018 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another,
commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from
a husband commits adultery.
016:019 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple
and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
016:020 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate,
full of sores,
016:021 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich
man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
016:022 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away
by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died,
and was buried.
016:023 In Hades{or, Hell}, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment,
and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
016:024 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
016:025 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime,
received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things.
But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
016:026 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed,
that those who want to pass from here to you are not able,
and that none may cross over from there to us.'
016:027 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send
him to my father's house;
016:028 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them,
so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
016:029 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets.
Let them listen to them.'
016:030 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from
the dead, they will repent.'
016:031 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
017:001 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions
of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
017:002 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around
his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that
he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
017:003 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him.
If he repents, forgive him.
017:004 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven
times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
017:005 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
017:006 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,
you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted
in the sea,' and it would obey you.
017:007 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or
keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field,
'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
017:008 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper,
clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink.
Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
017:009 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that
were commanded? I think not.
017:010 Even so you also, when you have done all the things
that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants.
We have done our duty.'"
017:011 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was
passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
017:012 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers
met him, who stood at a distance.
017:013 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us!"
017:014 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to
the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
017:015 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
glorifying God with a loud voice.
017:016 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks;
and he was a Samaritan.
017:017 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?