he went in, and reclined at table. (38)And the Pharisee, seeing it,
wondered that he did not first immerse himself before dinner. (39)And
the Lord said to him: Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup
and the platter; but your inward part is full of rapacity and
wickedness. (40)Fools! Did not he, who made the outside, make the
inside also? (41)But give that which ye have in alms[11:41]; and,
behold, all things are clean to you.
(42)But woe to you, Pharisees! because ye pay tithe of mint and rue
and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God. These ought
ye to have done, and not leave those undone.
(43)Woe to you, Pharisees! because ye love the first seat in the
synagogues, and the greetings in the markets.
(44)Woe to you! because ye are as tombs that appear not, and men
walking over them know it not.
(45)And a certain one of the lawyers answering says to him: Teacher,
in saying these things thou reproachest us also. (46)And he said: Woe
to you lawyers also! because ye load men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your
fingers.
(47)Woe to you! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them. (48)So then ye bear witness to and approve
the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, and ye
build their sepulchres[11:48]. (49)Therefore also said the wisdom of
God: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they
will slay and persecute; (50)that the blood of all the prophets, which
was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this
generation, (51)from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah,
who perished between the altar and the temple. Verily I say to you, it
shall be required of this generation.
(52)Woe to you lawyers! because ye took away the key of knowledge; ye
entered not in yourselves, and those who were entering in ye hindered.
(53)And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees
began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many
things[11:53]; (54)lying in wait for him, seeking to catch something
out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
XII.
IN the mean time, the multitude having gathered together in tens of
thousands, so that they trod one upon another, he began first to say
to his disciples: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is
hypocrisy. (2)For there is nothing covered, that shall not be
revealed, nor hidden, that shall not be known. (3)Wherefore, whatever
ye said in the darkness, shall be heard in the light; and what ye
spoke in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.
(4)And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those who kill the
body, and after that have no more that they can do. (5)But I will warn
you whom ye shall fear; fear him, who after he has killed has power to
cast into hell; yea, I say to you, fear him. (6)Are not five sparrows
sold for two pence? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
(7)But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; ye are
of more value than many sparrows.
(8)And I say to you: Every one that shall acknowledge me before men,
him will the Son of man also acknowledge before the angels of God;
(9)but he that denied me before men shall be denied before the angels
of God. (10)And every one that shall speak a word against the Son of
man, it will be forgiven him; but to him that blasphemes against the
Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.
(11)And when they bring you to the synagogues, and magistrates, and
authorities, take not thought how or what ye shall answer, or what ye
shall say. (12)For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour
what ye ought to say.
(13)And a certain one of the multitude said to him: Teacher, speak to
my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. (14)And he said to
him: Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? (15)And he said
to them: Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; because a man's
life consists not in the abundance of his possessions.
(16)And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain
rich man brought forth plentifully. (17)And he thought within himself,
saying: What shall I do, because I have not where to store my fruits?
(18)And he said: This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and will
build greater; and there I will store all my fruits and my goods.
(19)And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for
many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. (20)But God said to
him: Fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose
shall those things be, which thou didst provide? (21)So is he that
lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
(22)And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you, take not
thought for the life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye
shall put on. (23)The life is more than food, and the body than
raiment. (24)Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which
have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. How much better
are ye than the birds! (25)And which of you by taking thought can add
a cubit to his stature[12:25]? (26)If therefore ye can not do even
that which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
(27)Consider the lilies, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin; and I
say to you, that even Solomon, in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these. (28)And if God so clothes the grass, which to-day is in
the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more you, ye
of little faith? (29)And ye, seek not what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink, and be not of a doubtful mind. (30)For all these things
do the nations of the world seek after; and your Father knows that ye
have need of these. (31)But seek his kingdom, and these things shall
be added to you.
(32)Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. (33)Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide
yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure unfailing in the
heavens, where a thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts. (34)For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
(35)Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; (36)and ye
like men waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the
wedding; that, when he comes and knocks, they may open to him
immediately. (37)Happy those servants, whom their lord when he comes
shall find watching! Verily I say to you, that he will gird himself,
and make them recline at table, and will come forth and serve them.
(38)And if he shall come in the second watch, or in the third watch,
and find it so, happy are those servants. (39)And this know, that if
the master of the house had known at what hour the thief is coming, he
would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken
through. (40)Be ye also ready; for at an hour when ye think not, the
Son of man comes.
(41)And Peter said to him: Lord, speakest thou this parable to us, or
also to all? (42)And the Lord said: Who then is the faithful, the wise
steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the
portion of food in due season? (43)Happy that servant, whom his lord
when he comes shall find so doing! (44)Of a truth I say to you, that
he will make him ruler over all his goods.
(45)But if that servant say in his heart: My lord delays his coming;
and shall begin to beat the men-servants and maidservants, and to eat
and drink, and to be drunken; (46)the lord of that servant will come
in a day when he looks not for it, and in an hour when he is not
aware, and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the
faithless.
(47)And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not, nor
did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; (48)but
he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten
with few. For to whomsoever much was given, of him much will be
required; and to whom they committed much, of him they will require
the more.
(49)I came to send fire upon the earth; and what will I, if it is
already kindled[12:49]? (50)But I have an immersion to undergo; and
how am I straitened till it be accomplished! (51)Suppose ye that I
came to give peace in the earth? I tell you, nay; but only division.
(52)For from this time forth, five in one house will be divided, three
against two, and two against three. (53)They will be divided, father
against son, and son against father; mother against the daughter,
and daughter against the mother; mother-in-law against her
daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.
(54)And he said also to the multitudes: When ye see the cloud rising
from the west, straightway ye say: A shower is coming and so it comes
to pass. (55)And when ye see a south wind blowing, ye say: There will
be heat; and it comes to pass. (56)Hypocrites! Ye know how to judge of
the face of the earth and the sky; but how is it that ye know not how
to judge of this time? (57)And why even of yourselves do ye not judge
what is right? (58)For when thou art going with thine adversary to the
magistrate, on the way give diligence that thou mayest be delivered
from him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee
to the exactor, and the exactor cast thee into prison. (59)I say to
thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last
mite.
XIII.
THERE were present at that season some who brought him word concerning
the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.
(2)And answering he said to them: Suppose ye that these Galilaeans
were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered such
things? (3)I tell you, nay; but, except ye repent, ye shall all in
like manner perish. (4)Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam
fell, and slew them, suppose ye that they were sinners above all the
men who dwell in Jerusalem? (5)I tell you, nay; but, except ye repent,
ye shall all in like manner perish.
(6)He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in
his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.
(7)And he said to the vine-dresser: Behold, three years I come seeking
fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down; why does it also
encumber[13:7] the ground? (8)And he answering says to him: Lord, let
it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and cast in
manure. (9)And if it bear fruit--; and if not, hereafter thou shalt
cut it down[13:9].
(10)And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
(11)And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and wholly unable to raise
herself up. (12)And Jesus seeing her, called her to him, and said to
her: Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. (13)And he laid his
hands on her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified
God. (14)And the ruler of the synagogue answering (being indignant
because Jesus healed on the sabbath), said to the multitude: There are
six days in which it is proper to work; in them therefore come and be
healed, and not on the sabbath. (15)And the Lord answered him, and
said: Hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or
ass from the manger, and lead him away to water him? (16)And ought not
this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound, lo,
eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath? (17)And as
he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the
multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
(18)He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like? And to what
shall I liken it? (19)It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man
took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree,
and the birds of the air lodged in its branches.
(20)And again he said: To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?
(21)It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures
of meal, till the whole was leavened.
(22)And he went through cities and villages, teaching, and journeying
toward Jerusalem.
(23)And a certain one said to him: Lord, are there few that are saved?
(24)And he said to them: Strive to enter in through the strait gate;
for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
(25)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and
ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord,
open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence
ye are; (26)then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank in thy
presence, and thou didst teach in our streets. (27)And he will say, I
tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all workers of
unrighteousness. (28)There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of
teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. (29)And
they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will
recline at table in the kingdom of God. (30)And, behold, there are
last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.
(31)On that day there came certain Pharisees, saying to him: Depart,
and go hence; for Herod desires to kill thee. (32)And he said to them:
Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day
and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected. (33)But yet, I must
go to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following; because it may not be
that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
(34)Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those
sent to her; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as
a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not! (35)Behold, your
house is left to you desolate. And I say to you: Ye shall not see me,
until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the
name of the Lord.
XIV.
AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief of
the Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath, that they watched him.
(2)And, behold, there was a certain man before him who had the dropsy.
(3)And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is
it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not? And they were silent. (4)And
taking hold of him, he healed him, and let him go. (5)And to them he
said: Who is there of you, whose ox or ass[14:5] shall fall into a
pit, and he will not straightway draw him up on the sabbath day?
(6)And they could not answer him again to these things.
(7)And he spoke a parable to those who were bidden, when he marked how
they chose out the first places; saying to them: (8)When thou art
bidden by any one to a wedding, recline not in the first place at
table, lest one more honorable than thou may have been bidden by him;
(9)and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give
place to this man; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the
lowest place. (10)But when thou art bidden, go and recline in the
lowest place; that when he that bade thee comes, he may say to thee,
Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have honor in the presence of
those who recline at table with thee. (11)For every one that exalts
himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be
exalted.
(12)And he said also to him who bade him: When thou makest a dinner or
a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor
rich neighbors; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be
made thee. (13)But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the
maimed, the lame, the blind. (14)And happy shalt thou be, because they
can not recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the
resurrection of the righteous.
(15)And a certain one of those who reclined at table with him, hearing
these things, said to him: Happy is he, who shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God! (16)And he said to him: A certain man made a great
supper, and bade many. (17)And he sent his servant, at the hour of the
supper, to say to those who were bidden: Come, for all things are now
ready. (18)And they all, with one mind, began[14:18] to excuse
themselves. The first said to him: I bought a piece of ground, and I
must needs go out and see it; I pray thee let me be excused. (19)And
another said: I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to make trial
of them; I pray thee let me be excused. (20)And another said: I
married a wife; and therefore I can not come.
(21)And the servant came, and reported these things to his lord. 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 hither
the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind. (22)And the servant said:
Lord, it is done as thou didst command, and yet there is room. (23)And
the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and
compel them[14:23] to come in, that my house may be filled; (24)for I
say to you, that none of those men who were bidden shall taste of my
supper.
(25)And great multitudes were going with him; and turning, he said to
them: (26)If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and
mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and even
his own life besides, he can not be my disciple. (27)And whoever does
not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple. (28)For
who of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and
count the cost, whether he has sufficient to finish it? (29)Lest
haply, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all
that behold begin to mock him, (30)saying: This man began to build,
and was not able to finish. (31)Or what king, going to make war
against another king, does not first sit down and consult, whether he
is able, with ten thousand, to meet him who comes against him with
twenty thousand? (32)Else, while he is yet a great way off, he sends
an embassy, and desires conditions of peace.
(33)So then, whoever of you forsakes not all that he has can not be my
disciple. (34)Salt therefore is good; but if even the salt has become
tasteless, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (35)It is fit neither for
the land, nor for the dunghill; they cast it out. He that has ears to
hear, let him hear.
XV.
AND there were drawing near to him all the publicans and the sinners
to hear him. (2)And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying:
This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
(3)And he spoke this parable to them, saying: (4)What man of you,
having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave
the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is
lost, until he finds it? (5)And having found it, he lays it on his
shoulders, rejoicing. (6)And coming home, he calls together his
friends and neighbors, saying to them: Rejoice with me; because I
found my sheep which was lost. (7)I say to you, that so there will be
joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and
nine just persons, who have no need of repentance.
(8)Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece,
does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till
she finds it? (9)And having found it, she calls her friends and
neighbors together, saying: Rejoice with me; because I found the piece
which I lost. (10)So, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of
the angels of God over one sinner that repents.
(11)And he said: A certain man had two sons. (12)And the younger of
them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of the property
that falls to me. And he divided to them his living. (13)And not many
days after, the younger son gathered all together, and went abroad
into a far country, and there wasted his substance in riotous living.
(14)And when he had spent all, there arose a grievous famine in that
country; and he began to be in want. (15)And he went and joined
himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into
his fields to feed swine. (16)And he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks which the swine ate; and no one gave to him. (17)And
coming to himself, he said: How many hired servants of my father have
bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! (18)I will
arise and go to my father, and will say to him: Father, I sinned
against heaven, and before thee. (19)I am no longer worthy to be
called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants.
(20)And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great
way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on
his neck, and kissed him. (21)And the son said to him: Father, I
sinned against heaven, and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be
called thy son. (22)But the father said to his servants: Bring forth a
robe, the best, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and
sandals on his feet; (23)and bring the fatted calf, and kill it; and
let us eat and be merry. (24)Because this my son was dead and is alive
again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
(25)Now his elder son was in the field. And as he came, and drew near
to the house, he heard music and dancing. (26)And calling to him one
of the servants, he inquired what these things meant. (27)And he said
to him: Thy brother is come; and thy father killed the fatted calf,
because he received him back, safe and sound. (28)And he was angry,
and would not go in; and his father came out, and entreated him.
(29)And he answering said to his father: Lo, so many years do I serve
thee, and never transgressed thy command; and to me thou never gayest
a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. (30)But when this thy
son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for
him the fatted calf. (31)And he said to him: Child, thou art ever with
me, and all that I have is thine. (32)It was meet that we should make
merry, and be glad; because this thy brother was dead and is alive
again; and was lost, and is found.
XVI.
AND he said also to the disciples: There was a certain rich man, who
had a steward; and the same was accused to him as wasting his goods.
(2)And having called him, he said to him: What is this that I hear of
thee? Give account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer
steward. (3)And the steward said within himself: What shall I do? for
my master takes away from me the stewardship. I am not able to dig; to
beg I am ashamed. (4)I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out
of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. (5)And
having called to him each one of his master's debtors, he said to the
first: How much owest thou to my master? (6)And he said: A hundred
measures of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill, and sit down
quickly, and write fifty. (7)Then he said to another: And how much
owest thou? And he said: A hundred measures of wheat. And he said to
him: Take thy bill, and write fourscore. (8)And the master commended
the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; because the sons of
this world are, in their generation, wiser than the sons of light.
(9)And I say to you: Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into the
everlasting habitations. (10)He that is faithful in that which is
least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much. (11)If therefore ye were not faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? (12)And
if ye were not faithful in that which is another's, who will give to
you your own? (13)No servant can serve two masters; for either he will
hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and despise
the other. Ye can not serve God and Mammon.
(14)And the Pharisees also; who were covetous, heard all these things;
and they derided him. (15)And he said to them: Ye are they who justify
themselves before men; but God knows your hearts; for that which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination before God.
(16)The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the good
news of the kingdom of God is published, and every man presses into
it. (17)And it is easier that heaven and earth should pass away, than
that one tittle of the law should fail.
(18)Every one who puts away his wife, and marries another, commits
adultery; and he who marries her when put away from a husband commits
adultery.