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Chapter
1. The conception of John the Baptist, and of Christ.
The visitation and canticle of the Blessed Virgin. The birth of the
Baptist and the canticle of Zachary.
Chapter
2. The birth of Christ. His presentation in the
temple. Simeon's prophecy. Christ at twelve years of age, is found
amongst the doctors.
Chapter
3. John's mission and preaching. Christ is baptized by
him.
Chapter
4. Christ's fasting and temptation. He is persecuted
in Nazareth. His miracles in Capharnaum.
Chapter
5. The miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the
leper and of the paralytic. The call of Matthew.
Chapter
6. Christ excuses his disciples. He cures upon the
sabbath day, chooses the twelve and makes a sermon to them.
Chapter
7. Christ heals the centurion's servant. He raises the
widow's son to life, answers the messengers sent by John and absolves
the penitent sinner.
Chapter
8. The parable of the seed. Christ stills the storm at
sea, casts out the legion, heals the issue of blood and raises the
daughter of Jairus to life.
Chapter
9. Christ sends forth his apostles, feeds five
thousand with five loaves, is transfigured and casts out a devil.
Chapter
10. Christ sends forth and instructs his seventy-two
disciples. The good Samaritan.
Chapter
11. Christ teaches his disciples to pray. He casts out
a dumb devil, confutes the Pharisees, and pronounces woes against them
for their hypocrisy.
Chapter
12. Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the
world and covetousness. He admonishes all to watch.
Chapter
13. The necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The
cure of the infirm woman. The journey to Jerusalem.
Chapter
14. Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of the
supper. The necessity of renouncing all to follow Christ.
Chapter
15. The parables of the lost sheep and of the prodigal
son.
Chapter
16. The parable of the unjust steward and of the rich
man and Lazarus.
Chapter
17. Lessons of avoiding scandal and of the efficacy of
faith. The ten lepers. The manner of the coming of Christ.
Chapter
18. We must pray always. The Pharisee and the
publican. The danger of riches. The blind man is restored to sight.
Chapter
19. Zacheus entertains Christ. The parable of the
pounds. Christ rides upon an ass and weeps over Jerusalem.
Chapter
20. The parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute
to Caesar and of the resurrection of the dead.
Chapter
21. The widow's mites. The signs that should forerun
the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world.
Chapter
22. The treason of Judas. The last supper. The first
part of the history of the passion.
Chapter
23. The continuation of the history of the passion.
Chapter
24. Christ's resurrection and manifestation of himself
to his disciples.
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By Mons. Dr. Juan Straubinger
"Luke,
the beloved physician" (Col
4:14) was as Syrian
born in Antioch in a pagan family. He had the fortune of conversion to
Christianity and to meet Paul, becoming his loyal companion and
disciple for many years - even sharing prison with him in Rome.
According to his own testimony (
Lk
1:3), Luke
"having
had perfect understanding of all things from the very first"
recorded it to leave behind a written record of the oral tradition
"that you may know the certainty of those
things in which you were instructed" (
Lk
1:4).
Without a doubt,
one of his main sources was Paul himself and is very probable that he
also received information directly from Mary, Jesus Most Holy Mother;
especially regarding the childhood of our Lord since it is only Luke
who gives certain details about it.
Because of his news about the Child and His Mother, he was called the
Evangelist of the Virgin. It is because of this that legend has it that
Luke "painted" the first portrait of Mary. He obviously did, but with
words and not brushes.
Luke is also called the Evangelist of Mercy since the parables of the
Prodigal Son, the Lost Drachma, the Good Samaritan, and others related
only appear in his Gospel.
This third Gospel was written in Rome towards the last captivity of
Paul - that is - somewhere between the years 62 and 63 A.D. His Gospel
was addressed to the Christians of the churches founded by the Apostle
of the Gentiles - Paul. This is why the Gospel of Luke contains a more
accurate and complete portrait of the life of Jesus and directed at us,
Christians of Gentile roots.
(*) A translation from
the
Straubinger Spanish Bible. Not a part of the World English Bible.
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of Note | Index
The
conception of John the Baptist, and of Christ. The visitation and
canticle of the Blessed Virgin. The birth of the Baptist and the
canticle of Zachary.
1 Since many have undertaken to set in order a
narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants
of the word delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having
traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to
you in order, most excellent Theophilus; 4 that you might know the
certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea,
a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah.
He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
6 They were both righteous before God, walking
blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. 7 But
they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were
well advanced in years. 8 Now while he executed the priest’s office
before God in the order of his division 9 according to the custom of
the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord
and burn incense. 10 The whole multitude of the people were praying
outside at the hour of incense.
11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on
the right side of the altar of incense. 12 Zacharias was troubled when
he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him,
“Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your
wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.
15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no
wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even
from his mother’s womb.
16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to
the Lord their God. 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of
Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ (✡) and
the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared
for the Lord.” 18 Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of
this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.” 19
The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of
God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20
Behold, (*) you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that
these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which
will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they
marveled that he delayed in the temple. 22 When he came out, he could
not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the
temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute. 23 When
the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. 24
After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five
months, saying, 25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which
he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was
sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin
pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house.
The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 Having come in, the angel said to her,
“Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you
among women!” 29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the
saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. 30 The
angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor
with God.
31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give
birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ 32 He will be great and
will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the
throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of
Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.” 34 Mary said to
the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?” 35 The angel
answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born
from you will be called the Son of God.
36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has
conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her
who was called barren. 37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.” (†)
38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me
according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. 39 Mary
arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a
city of Judah, 40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted
Elizabeth.
41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby
leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42
She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among
women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 Why am I so favored,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the
voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb
for joy! 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a
fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
46 Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. 47 My
spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked at the
humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations
will call me blessed. 49 For he who is mighty has done great things for
me. Holy is his name. 50 His mercy is for generations and generations
on those who fear him.
51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has
scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He has put
down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. 53 He has
filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty. 54
He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
55 as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring (‡)
forever.”
56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then
returned to her house. 57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth
was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and her
relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and
they rejoiced with her. 59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise
the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of
his father. 60 His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called
John.”
61 They said to her, “There is no one among your
relatives who is called by this name.” 62 They made signs to his
father, what he would have him called. 63 He asked for a writing
tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled. 64 His mouth
was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing
God. 65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings
were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart,
saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with
him. 67 His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and
prophesied, saying, 68 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he
has visited and redeemed his people; 69 and has raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (as he spoke by
the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of
all who hate us; 72 to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his
holy covenant, 73 the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, 74 to
grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
should serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before
him all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the
Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his
ways, 77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission
of their sins, 78 because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the
dawn from on high will visit us, 79 to shine on those who sit in
darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of
peace.” 80 The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was
in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
(✡) 1:17 Malachi 4:6
(*) 1:20 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe,
see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
(†) 1:37 or, “For everything spoken by God is possible.”
(‡) 1:55 or, seed
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The
birth of Christ. His presentation in the temple. Simeon's prophecy.
Christ at twelve years of age, is found amongst the doctors.
1 Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar
Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. 2 This was the first
enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to
enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city,
which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of
David, 5 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to
him as wife, being pregnant.
6 While they were there, the day had come for her to
give birth. 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in
bands of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no
room for them in the inn. 8 There were shepherds in the same country
staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. 9
Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord
shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 The angel said to them,
“Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which
will be to all the people.
11 For there is born to you today, in David’s city,
a Savior, who is Christ (*) the Lord. 12 This is the sign to you: you
will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding
trough.” 13 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly army praising God and saying, 14 “Glory to God in the highest,
on earth peace, good will toward men.” 15 When the angels went away
from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to
Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord
has made known to us.”
16 They came with haste and found both Mary and
Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. 17 When they saw
it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about
this child. 18 All who heard it wondered at the things which were
spoken to them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these sayings,
pondering them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and
praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as
it was told them.
21 When eight days were fulfilled for the
circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given
by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. 22 When the days of
their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they
brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is
written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be
called holy to the Lord”), (✡) 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to
that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or
two young pigeons.” (✡) 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose
name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the
consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit
that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. (†)
27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in
the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the
custom of the law, 28 then he received him into his arms and blessed
God, and said, 29 “Now you are releasing your servant, Master,
according to your word, in peace; 30 for my eyes have seen your
salvation,
31 which you have prepared before the face of all
peoples; 32 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of
your people Israel.” 33 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the
things which were spoken concerning him. 34 Simeon blessed them, and
said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the
falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is
spoken against. 35 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that
the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
36 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of
Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived
with a husband seven years from her virginity, 37 and she had been a
widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple,
worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day. 38 Coming up at
that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all
those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem. 39 When they had
accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord,
they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40 The child
was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with
wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
41 His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the
feast of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to
Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast; 43 and when they had
fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind
in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it, 44 but supposing
him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey; and they looked
for him among their relatives and acquaintances. 45 When they didn’t
find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.
46 After three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them and
asking them questions. 47 All who heard him were amazed at his
understanding and his answers. 48 When they saw him, they were
astonished; and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us
this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.” 49
He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I
must be in my Father’s house?” 50 They didn’t understand the saying
which he spoke to them.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth.
He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her
heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with
God and men.
(*) 2:11 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.
(✡) 2:23 Exodus 13:2,12
(✡) 2:24 Leviticus 12:8
(†) 2:26 “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew) both mean “Anointed
One”
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John's
mission and preaching. Christ is baptized by him.
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of
Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the
high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John,
the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 3 He came into all the region
around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of
sins. 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the
prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the
way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. 5 Every valley will be
filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will
become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
6 All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ” (✡) 7 He
said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him,
“You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to
come? 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin
to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell
you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree
therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into
the fire.” 10 The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
11 He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him
give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.” 12 Tax
collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher,
what must we do?” 13 He said to them, “Collect no more than that which
is appointed to you.” 14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about
us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence,
neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.” 15 As
the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts
concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
16 John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you
with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose
sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy
Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will
thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into
his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 18
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
19 but Herod the tetrarch, (*) being reproved by him for Herodias, his
brother’s (†) wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also
had been baptized and was praying. The sky was opened, 22 and the Holy
Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came
out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well
pleased.” 23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty
years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of
Jannai, the son of Joseph, 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son
of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, 27 the son of Joanan,
the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son
of Neri, 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the
son of Elmodam, the son of Er, 29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer,
the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son of
Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son
of Eliakim,
31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of
Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse, the
son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 33
the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, (‡) the son of Hezron, the son
of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the
son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35 the son of
Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of
Shelah,
36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son
of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37 the son of Methuselah,
the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of
Cainan, 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son
of God.
(✡) 3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5
(*) 3:19 a tetrarch is one of four governors of a province
(†) 3:19 TR reads “brother Philip’s” instead of “brother’s”
(‡) 3:33 NU reads “Admin, the son of Arni” instead of “Aram”
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Christ's
fasting and temptation. He is persecuted in Nazareth. His miracles in
Capharnaum.
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the
Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness 2 for forty days,
being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward,
when they were completed, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If
you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 Jesus
answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word of God.’ ” (✡) 5 The devil, leading him up on
a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment
of time.
6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this
authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give
it to whomever I want. 7 If you therefore will worship before me, it
will all be yours.” 8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it
is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve
him only.’ ” (✡) 9 He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle
of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast
yourself down from here, 10 for it is written, ‘He will put his angels
in charge of you, to guard you;’
11 and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest
perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” (✡) 12 Jesus answering,
said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your
God.’ ” (✡) 13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he
departed from him until another time.
14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. 15
He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought
up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath
day, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed
to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to
preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken
hearted, (*) to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight
to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, 19 and to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord.” (✡) 20 He closed the book, gave it back
to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were
fastened on him.
21 He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has
been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All testified about him and
wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and
they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” 23 He said to them, “Doubtless
you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we
have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ” 24 He
said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his
hometown. 25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in
the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six
months, when a great famine came over all the land.
26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to
Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 There
were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not
one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.” 28 They were all
filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things. 29 They
rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill
that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He
was teaching them on the Sabbath day, 32 and they were astonished at
his teaching, for his word was with authority. 33 In the synagogue
there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out
with a loud voice, 34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus
of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy
One of God!” 35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of
him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came
out of him, having done him no harm.
36 Amazement came on all and they spoke together,
one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and
power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” 37 News
about him went out into every place of the surrounding region. 38 He
rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s
mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to
help her. 39 He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her.
Immediately she rose up and served them. 40 When the sun was setting,
all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him;
and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
41 Demons also came out of many, crying out and
saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t
allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. 42 When
it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the
multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that
he wouldn’t go away from them. 43 But he said to them, “I must preach
the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this
reason I have been sent.” 44 He was preaching in the synagogues of
Galilee.
(✡) 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3
(✡) 4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13
(✡) 4:11 Psalm 91:11-12
(✡) 4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16
(*) 4:18 NU omits “to heal the broken hearted”
(✡) 4:19 Isaiah 61:1-2
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The
miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the leper and of the
paralytic. The call of Matthew.
1 Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard
the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. 2 He saw
two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them
and were washing their nets. 3 He entered into one of the boats, which
was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat
down and taught the multitudes from the boat. 4 When he had finished
speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your
nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night
and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
6 When they had done this, they caught a great
multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. 7 They beckoned to their
partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They
came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. 8 But Simon
Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from
me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.” 9 For he was amazed, and all who were
with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; 10 and so also
were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching
people alive.”
11 When they had brought their boats to land, they
left everything, and followed him. 12 While he was in one of the
cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he
fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can
make me clean.” 13 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying,
“I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him. 14 He
commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way and show yourself to the
priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded,
for a testimony to them.” 15 But the report concerning him spread much
more, and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by
him of their infirmities.
16 But he withdrew himself into the desert and
prayed. 17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were
Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every
village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was
with him to heal them. 18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot,
and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus. 19 Not finding a
way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the
housetop and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the
middle before Jesus. 20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your
sins are forgiven you.”
21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason,
saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but
God alone?” 22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them,
“Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? 23 Which is easier to say,
‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ 24 But that
you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive
sins,” he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, arise, take up your
cot, and go to your house.” 25 Immediately he rose up before them, and
took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house,
glorifying God.
26 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified
God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things
today.” 27 After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named
Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!” 28 He
left everything, and rose up and followed him. 29 Levi made a great
feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors
and others who were reclining with them. 30 Their scribes and the
Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and
drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have
no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 32 I have not come
to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” 33 They said to
him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the
disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” 34 He said to
them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the
bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
36 He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a
piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the
new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 No one
puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the
skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But
new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. 39
No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The
old is better.’ ”
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Christ
excuses his disciples. He cures upon the sabbath day, chooses the
twelve and makes a sermon to them.
1 Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was
going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of
grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees
said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the
Sabbath day?” 3 Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what
David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him, 4 how he
entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave
also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for
the priests alone?” 5 He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the
Sabbath.”
6 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered
into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right
hand was withered. 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see
whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an
accusation against him. 8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to
the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up and stand in the middle.”
He arose and stood. 9 Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you
something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To
save a life, or to kill?” 10 He looked around at them all, and said to
the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as
sound as the other.
11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with
one another about what they might do to Jesus. 12 In these days, he
went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer
to God. 13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he
chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he also named
Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; 15
Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon who was called the
Zealot;
16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who
also became a traitor. 17 He came down with them and stood on a level
place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, 18 as well as
those who were troubled by unclean spirits; and they were being healed.
19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and
healed them all. 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said:
“Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be
filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed
are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and
throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 23 Rejoice in
that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven,
for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. 24 “But woe to
you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. 25 Woe to
you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh
now, for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe, (*) when (†) men speak well of you, for
their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. 27 “But I tell
you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. 29 To
him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him
who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. 30 Give to
everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to
give them back again.
31 “As you would like people to do to you, do
exactly so to them. 32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is
that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do
good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even
sinners do the same. 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to
receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to
receive back as much. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend,
expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be
children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and
evil.
36 “Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is
also merciful. 37 Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn,
and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. 38
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, and running over, will be given to you. (‡) For with the same
measure you measure it will be measured back to you.” 39 He spoke a
parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall
into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when
he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your
brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 42
Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of
chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that
is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own
eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is
in your brother’s eye. 43 “For there is no good tree that produces
rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. 44 For
each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from
thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 The good man
out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good,
and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that
which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do
the things which I say? 47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words
and does them, I will show you who he is like. 48 He is like a man
building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the
rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and
could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who
hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth
without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately
it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
(*) 6:26 TR adds “to you”
(†) 6:26 TR adds “all”
(‡) 6:38 literally, into your bosom.
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Christ
heals the centurion's servant. He raises the widow's son to life,
answers the messengers sent by John and absolves the penitent sinner.
1 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of
the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2 A certain centurion’s servant,
who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. 3 When he
heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to
come and save his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they begged him
earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him, 5 for he
loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”
6 Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from
the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord,
don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my
roof. 7 Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but
say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8 For I also am a man
placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,
‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my
servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 9 When Jesus heard these things,
he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed
him, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in
Israel.” 10 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the
servant who had been sick was well.
11 Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain.
Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. 12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead
was carried out, the only born (*) son of his mother, and she was a
widow. Many people of the city were with her. 13 When the Lord saw her,
he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.” 14 He came near
and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young
man, I tell you, arise!” 15 He who was dead sat up and began to speak.
Then he gave him to his mother.
16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God,
saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited
his people!” 17 This report went out concerning him in the whole of
Judea and in all the surrounding region. 18 The disciples of John told
him about all these things. 19 John, calling to himself two of his
disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one who is coming,
or should we look for another?” 20 When the men had come to him, they
said, “John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who
comes, or should we look for another?’ ”
21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and
plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. 22
Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen
and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the
poor have good news preached to them. 23 Blessed is he who finds no
occasion for stumbling in me.” 24 When John’s messengers had departed,
he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into
the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 25 But what did you
go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are
gorgeously dressed and live delicately are in kings’ courts.
26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I
tell you, and much more than a prophet. 27 This is he of whom it is
written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will
prepare your way before you.’ (✡) 28 “For I tell you, among those who
are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the
Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.” 29
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared
God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism. 30 But the
Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being
baptized by him themselves.
31 (†) “To what then should I compare the people of
this generation? What are they like? 32 They are like children who sit
in the marketplace and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you,
and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’ 33 For John the
Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He
has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you
say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and
sinners!’ 35 Wisdom is justified by all her children.”
36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him.
He entered into the Pharisee’s house and sat at the table. 37 Behold, a
woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining
in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38
Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her
tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet,
and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had
invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a
prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who
touches him, that she is a sinner.” 40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I
have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”
41 “A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed
five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they couldn’t pay,
he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?” 43
Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.” He said
to him, “You have judged correctly.” 44 Turning to the woman, he said
to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you
gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears,
and wiped them with the hair of her head. 45 You gave me no kiss, but
she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has
anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Therefore I tell you, her sins,
which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom
little is forgiven, loves little.” 48 He said to her, “Your sins are
forgiven.” 49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to
themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” 50 He said to the
woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
(*) 7:12 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word
“μονογενη”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and
only”.
(✡) 7:27 Malachi 3:1
(†) 7:31 TR adds “But the Lord said,”
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The
parable of the seed. Christ stills the storm at sea, casts out the
legion, heals the issue of blood and raises the daughter of Jairus to
life.
1 Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and
villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With
him were the twelve, 2 and certain women who had been healed of evil
spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven
demons had gone out; 3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward;
Susanna; and many others who served them (*) from their possessions. 4
When a great multitude came together and people from every city were
coming to him, he spoke by a parable: 5 “The farmer went out to sow his
seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under
foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
6 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it
grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. 7 Other fell amid
the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. 8 Other fell
into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much
fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to
hear, let him hear!” 9 Then his disciples asked him, “What does this
parable mean?” 10 He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of
God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing
they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ (✡)
11 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of
God. 12 Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes
and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and
be saved. 13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive
the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while,
then fall away in time of temptation. 14 What fell among the thorns,
these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are
choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no
fruit to maturity. 15 Those in the good ground, these are those who
with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly,
and produce fruit with perseverance.
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a
container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those
who enter in may see the light. 17 For nothing is hidden that will not
be revealed, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to
light. 18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him
will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away
even that which he thinks he has.” 19 His mother and brothers came to
him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. 20 Some people
told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see
you.”
21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers
are these who hear the word of God and do it.” 22 Now on one of those
days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to
them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched
out. 23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on
the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. 24 They
came to him and awoke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are dying!” He
awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; then they
ceased, and it was calm. (✡) 25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?”
Being afraid, they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then,
that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”
26 Then they arrived at the country of the
Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, a
certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He
wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs. 28 When
he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud
voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most
High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!” 29 For Jesus was commanding the
unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often
seized the man. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and
fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the
desert. 30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for
many demons had entered into him.
31 They begged him that he would not command them to
go into the abyss. 32 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding
on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter
into those. Then he allowed them. 33 The demons came out of the man and
entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the
lake and were drowned. 34 When those who fed them saw what had
happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. 35
People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found
the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet,
clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
36 Those who saw it told them how he who had been
possessed by demons was healed. 37 All the people of the surrounding
country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were
very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned. 38 But
the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go
with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return to your house,
and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way,
proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done
for him. 40 When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they
were all waiting for him.
41 Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler
of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged him to come
into his house, 42 for he had an only born (†) daughter, about twelve
years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed
against him. 43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who
had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any,
44 came behind him and touched the fringe (‡) of his cloak. Immediately
the flow of her blood stopped. 45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When
all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes
press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I
perceived that power has gone out of me.” 47 When the woman saw that
she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before him
declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she
had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. 48 He said to her,
“Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” 49
While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came,
saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.” 50
But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and
she will be healed.”
51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone
to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and
her mother. 52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t
weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.” 53 They were ridiculing him,
knowing that she was dead. 54 But he put them all outside, and taking
her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!” 55 Her spirit
returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be
given to her to eat.
56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to
tell no one what had been done.
(*) 8:3 TR reads “him” instead of “them”
(✡) 8:10 Isaiah 6:9
(✡) 8:24 See Psalm 107:29
(†) 8:42 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”,
which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.
(‡) 8:44 or, tassel
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Christ
sends forth his apostles, feeds five thousand with five loaves, is
transfigured and casts out a devil.
1 He called the twelve (*) together and gave them
power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. 2 He sent
them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick. 3 He said to
them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread,
nor money. Don’t have two tunics each. 4 Into whatever house you enter,
stay there, and depart from there. 5 As many as don’t receive you, when
you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a
testimony against them.”
6 They departed and went throughout the villages,
preaching the Good News and healing everywhere. 7 Now Herod the
tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed,
because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by
some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old
prophets had risen again. 9 Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is
this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him. 10 The
apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done.
He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of (†) a city called
Bethsaida.
11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him.
He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those
who needed healing. 12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came
and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
surrounding villages and farms and lodge and get food, for we are here
in a deserted place.” 13 But he said to them, “You give them something
to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish,
unless we should go and buy food for all these people.” 14 For they
were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit
down in groups of about fifty each.” 15 They did so, and made them all
sit down.
16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to
the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 They ate and were all
filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left
over. 18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were near him, and he
asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?” 19 They answered, “
‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of
the old prophets has risen again.” 20 He said to them, “But who do you
say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
21 But he warned them and commanded them to tell
this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and
be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,
and the third day be raised up.” 23 He said to all, “If anyone desires
to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, (‡) and
follow me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but
whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it. 25 For what does
it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his
own self?
26 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my
words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his
glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. 27 But I
tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in
no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.” 28 About eight
days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and
went up onto the mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance
of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. 30
Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure,
(§) which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and
those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully
awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him. 33 As
they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good
for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said. 34 While he said these
things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as
they entered into the cloud. 35 A voice came out of the cloud, saying,
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”
36 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They
were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they
had seen. 37 On the next day, when they had come down from the
mountain, a great multitude met him. 38 Behold, a man from the crowd
called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my
only born (*) child. 39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries
out, and it convulses him so that he foams; and it hardly departs from
him, bruising him severely. 40 I begged your disciples to cast it out,
and they couldn’t.”
41 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your
son here.” 42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and
convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed
the boy, and gave him back to his father. 43 They were all astonished
at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things
which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, 44 “Let these words sink
into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands
of men.” 45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed
from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to
ask him about this saying.
46 An argument arose among them about which of them
was the greatest. 47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts,
took a little child, and set him by his side, 48 and said to them,
“Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever
receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you
all, this one will be great.” 49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone
casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t
follow with us.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is
not against us is for us.”
51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he
should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem 52 and
sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village
of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. 53 They didn’t receive
him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem. 54
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you
want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them,
just as Elijah did?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know
of what kind of spirit you are.
56 For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s
lives, but to save them.” They went to another village. 57 As they went
on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever
you go, Lord.” 58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the
birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his
head.” 59 He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me
first to go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the
dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord,
but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.” 62
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and
looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
(*) 9:1 TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve”
(†) 9:10 NU omits “a desert region of”.
(‡) 9:23 TR, NU add “daily”
(§) 9:31 literally, “exodus”
(*) 9:38 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”,
which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.
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Christ
sends forth and instructs his seventy-two disciples. The good Samaritan.
1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed
seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him (*) into every
city and place where he was about to come. 2 Then he said to them, “The
harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore
to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his
harvest. 3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. 5
Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest
on him; but if not, it will return to you. 7 Remain in that same house,
eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of
his wages. Don’t go from house to house. 8 Into whatever city you enter
and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. 9 Heal
the sick who are there and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to
you.’ 10 But into whatever city you enter and they don’t receive you,
go out into its streets and say,
11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us,
we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has
come near to you.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day
for Sodom than for that city. 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon
which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and
Sidon in the judgment than for you. 15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted
to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. (†)
16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and
whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent
me.” 17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons
are subject to us in your name!” 18 He said to them, “I saw Satan
having fallen like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you
authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of
the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, don’t
rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that
your names are written in heaven.”
21 In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy
Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and
revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was
well-pleasing in your sight.” 22 Turning to the disciples, he said,
“All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who
the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son,
and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.” 23 Turning to the
disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the
things that you see, 24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to
hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.” 25 Behold, a
certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I
do to inherit eternal life?”
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? How
do you read it?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with
all your mind; (✡) and your neighbor as yourself.” (✡) 28 He said to
him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.” 29 But
he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” 30
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him,
and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 By chance a certain priest was going down that
way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 In the same
way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on
the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where
he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, 34 came to him,
and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own
animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 On the next
day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host,
and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I
will repay you when I return.’
36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to
be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “He who
showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” 38
As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a
certain woman named Martha received him into her house. 39 She had a
sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word. 40
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him,
and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone?
Ask her therefore to help me.”
41 Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are
anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is needed.
Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
(*) 10:1 literally, “before his face”
(†) 10:15 Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.
(✡) 10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5
(✡) 10:27 Leviticus 19:18
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Christ
teaches his disciples to pray. He casts out a dumb devil, confutes the
Pharisees, and pronounces woes against them for their hypocrisy.
1 When he finished praying in a certain place, one
of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John
also taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say,
‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom
come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day
by day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also
forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’ ” 5 He said to them, “Which of you,
if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three
loaves of bread,
6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a
journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ 7 and he from within
will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my
children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? 8 I
tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is
his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him
as many as he needs. 9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given
you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be
opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds.
To him who knocks it will be opened.
11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for
bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give
him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he
won’t give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” 14 He was
casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the
mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled. 15 But some of them said,
“He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
16 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from
heaven. 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided
against itself falls. 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how
will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by
Beelzebul. 19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your
children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if I
by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.
21 “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his
own dwelling, his goods are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks
him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he
trusted, and divides his plunder. 23 “He who is not with me is against
me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. 24 The unclean spirit, when
he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest;
and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I
came out.’ 25 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
26 Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more
evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of
that man becomes worse than the first.” 27 It came to pass, as he said
these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice
and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts
which nursed you!” 28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those
who hear the word of God, and keep it.” 29 When the multitudes were
gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil
generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the
sign of Jonah the prophet. 30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the
Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.
31 The Queen of the South will rise up in the
judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she
came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and
behold, one greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will
stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for
they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than
Jonah is here. 33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar
or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the
light. 34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is
good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your
body also is full of darkness. 35 Therefore see whether the light that
is in you isn’t darkness.
36 If therefore your whole body is full of light,
having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp
with its bright shining gives you light.” 37 Now as he spoke, a certain
Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.
38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed
himself before dinner. 39 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees
cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part
is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 You foolish ones, didn’t he who
made the outside make the inside also?
41 But give for gifts to the needy those things
which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. 42 But
woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but
you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and
not to have left the other undone. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you
love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the
marketplaces. 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
45 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult
us also.”
46 He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load
men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t
even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. 47 Woe to you! For
you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they
killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also the wisdom of
God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them
they will kill 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 to the blood of
Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I
tell you, it will be required of this generation. 52 Woe to you
lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in
yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.” 53 As he
said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be
terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him, 54 lying in wait
for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they
might accuse him.
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Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the
fear of the world and covetousness.
He admonishes all to watch.
1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had
gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he
began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing covered up that
will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore
whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What
you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the
housetops. 4 “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will
warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has
power to cast into Gehenna. (*) Yes, I tell you, fear him.
6 “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins
(†)? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 But the very hairs of your
head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value
than many sparrows. 8 “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before
men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; 9 but
he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence
of God’s angels. 10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man
will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will
not be forgiven.
11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the
rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will
answer or what you will say; 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in
that same hour what you must say.” 13 One of the multitude said to him,
“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he
said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” 15
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a
man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he
possesses.”
16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground
of a certain rich man produced abundantly. 17 He reasoned within
himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my
crops?’ 18 He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns,
build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.
Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 “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?’
21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and
is not rich toward God.” 22 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. 23 Life is more than food, and the body
is more than clothing. 24 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! 25 Which of you by being anxious
can add a cubit (‡) to his height?
26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least
things, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 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. 28 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? 29 “Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will
drink; neither be anxious. 30 For the nations of the world seek after
all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
31 But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things
will be added to you. 32 “Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your
Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. 33 Sell what 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 and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also. 35 “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps
burning.
36 Be like men watching for their lord when he
returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may
immediately open to him. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the lord
will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he
will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them. 38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds
them so. 39 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. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of
Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
41 Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this
parable to us, or to everybody?” 42 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? 43 Blessed is
that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. 44 Truly I
tell you that he will set him over all that he has. 45 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,
46 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. 47 That
servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he
wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, 48 but he who didn’t know,
and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To
whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much
was entrusted, of him more will be asked. 49 “I came to throw fire on
the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 50 But I have a baptism to
be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in
the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 52 For from now on,
there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two
against three. 53 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.” (✡) 54 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. 55 When a south wind blows, you
say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
56 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? 57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is
right? 58 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. 59 I tell you, you will
by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.
(§)”
(*) 12:5 or, Hell
(†) 12:6 An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s
wages for an agricultural laborer.
(‡) 12:25 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to
the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
(✡) 12:53 Micah 7:6
(§) 12:59 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.
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The
necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The cure of the infirm
woman. The journey to Jerusalem.
1 Now there were some present at the same time who
told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their
sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered
such things? 3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all
perish in the same way. 4 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? 5 I tell you, no, but, unless you
repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
6 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. 7 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?’ 8 He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this
year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit,
fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ” 10 He was
teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way
straighten herself up. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to
her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” 13 He laid his hands
on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God. 14 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!” 15 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?
16 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?” 17 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. 18 He said, “What is God’s
Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it? 19 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 live in its branches.” 20
Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?
21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in
three measures (*) of flour, until it was all leavened.” 22 He went on
his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to
Jerusalem. 23 One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He
said to them, 24 “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I
tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able. 25 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.’
26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in
your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 He will say, ‘I tell
you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers
of iniquity.’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you
see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and
yourselves being thrown outside. 29 They will come from the east, west,
north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom. 30 Behold, there
are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are
first who will be last.”
31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to
him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 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. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the
next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of
Jerusalem.’ 34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who 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! 35 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!’ ” (✡)
(*) 13:21 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a
bit more than a bushel.
(✡) 13:35 Psalm 118:26
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Christ
heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The necessity of
renouncing all to follow Christ.
1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers
of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. 2
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. 3 Jesus,
answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath?” 4 But they were silent. He took him, and healed
him, and let him go. 5 He answered them, “Which of you, if your son (*)
or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a
Sabbath day?”
6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things. 7
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they
chose the best seats, and said to them, 8 “When you are invited by
anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps
someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, 9 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. 10
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.
11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” 12 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. 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame,
or the blind; 14 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.” 15 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
God’s Kingdom!”
16 But he said to him, “A certain man made a great
supper, and he invited many people. 17 He sent out his servant at
supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is
ready now.’ 18 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.’ 19 “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I
must go try them out. Please have me excused.’ 20 “Another said, ‘I
have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
21 “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.’ 22 “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is
done as you commanded, and there is still room.’ 23 “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. 24 For I tell you that none of
those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ” 25 Now great
multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard
(†) his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes,
and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn’t bear
his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple. 28 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? 29 Or perhaps, when he
has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees
begins to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able
to finish.’
31 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? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends
an envoy and asks for conditions of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of
you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. 34
“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do
you season it? 35 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.”
(*) 14:5 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son”
(†) 14:26 or, hate
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The
parables of the lost sheep and of the prodigal son.
1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming
close to him to hear him. 2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured,
saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.” 3 He told them
this parable: 4 “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? 5 When he has found
it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6 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!’ 7 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. 8 “Or what woman, if she had
ten drachma (*) coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a
lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? 9 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!’ 10
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God
over one sinner repenting.”
11 He said, “A certain man had two sons. 12 The
younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your
property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them. 13 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. 14
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that
country, and he began to be in need. 15 He went and joined himself to
one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to
feed pigs.
16 He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that
the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. 17 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! 18 I will get up and go to my father,
and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your
sight. 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of
your hired servants.” ’ 20 “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, fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 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.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best
robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate; 24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is
found.’ Then they began to celebrate. 25 “Now his elder son was in the
field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 He called one of the servants to him and asked
what was going on. 27 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.’ 28 But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore
his father came out and begged him. 29 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. 30 But when this your son came, who has
devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for
him.’
31 “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me,
and all that is mine is yours. 32 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.’ ”
(*) 15:8 A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an
agricultural laborer.
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The
parable of the unjust steward and of the rich man and Lazarus.
1 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. 2 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.’ 3 “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. 4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from
management, they may receive me into their houses.’ 5 Calling each one
of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you
owe to my lord?’
6 He said, ‘A hundred batos (*) of oil.’ He said to
him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he
said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors (†) of
wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 “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. 9 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. 10 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.
11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12
If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give
you that which is your own? 13 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.”
(‡) 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these
things, and they scoffed at him. 15 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.
16 “The law and the prophets were until John. From
that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is
forcing his way into it. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to
pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. 18
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery.
He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. 19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and
fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named
Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
21 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. 22 The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to
Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades,
(§) he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off,
and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 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.’ 25 “But
Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your
good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is
now comforted and you are in anguish.
26 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 no one may cross over from there to us.’ 27 “He said, ‘I
ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s
house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they
won’t also come into this place of torment.’ 29 “But Abraham said to
him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ 30
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead,
they will repent.’
31 “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.’ ”
(*) 16:6 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons.
(†) 16:7 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels.
(‡) 16:13 “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
(§) 16:23 or, Hell
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Lessons
of avoiding scandal and of the efficacy of faith. The ten lepers. The
manner of the coming of Christ.
1 He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that
no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they
come! 2 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. 3 Be careful. If your brother sins
against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins
against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I
repent,’ you shall forgive him.” 5 The apostles said to the Lord,
“Increase our faith.”
6 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. 7 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’?
8 Wouldn’t he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself
properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat
and drink’? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that
were commanded? I think not. 10 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.’ ”
11 As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was
passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he entered into
a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a
distance. 13 They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us!” 14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show
yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed. 15 One of
them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with
a loud voice.
16 He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him
thanks; and he was a Samaritan. 17 Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten
cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there none found who returned
to give glory to God, except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him,
“Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.” 20 Being asked by
the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s
Kingdom doesn’t come with observation;
21 neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look,
there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.” 22 He said to the
disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the
days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 They will tell you,
‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them, 24
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky,
shines to another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his
day. 25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation.
26 As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will
also be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they
married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah
entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28
Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot
went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and
destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son
of Man is revealed.
31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop and
his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him
who is in the field likewise not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life
preserves it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in
one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. 35 There will be
two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be
left.”
36 (*) 37 They, answering, asked him, “Where,
Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will
also be gathered together.”
(*) 17:36 Some Greek manuscripts add: “Two will be in the field:
the one taken, and the other left.”
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We
must pray always. The Pharisee and the publican. The danger of riches.
The blind man is restored to sight.
1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must
always pray and not give up, 2 saying, “There was a judge in a certain
city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man. 3 A widow was in that
city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
4 He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I
neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow bothers me,
I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual
coming.’ ”
6 The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous
judge says. 7 Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to
him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? 8 I tell
you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man
comes, will he find faith on the earth?” 9 He also spoke this parable
to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and
who despised all others: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray;
one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like
this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men:
extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax
collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his
eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a
sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified
rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” 15 They were also bringing
their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples
saw it, they rebuked them.
16 Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little
children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom
belongs to such as these. 17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever
doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way
enter into it.” 18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 Jesus asked him, “Why do
you call me good? No one is good, except one: God. 20 You know the
commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’
‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ” (✡)
21 He said, “I have observed all these things from
my youth up.” 22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You
still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the
poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” 23
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very
rich. 24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is
for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! 25 For it is
easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich
man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
26 Those who heard it said, “Then who can be
saved?” 27 But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are
possible with God.” 28 Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and
followed you.” 29 He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is
no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or
children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, 30 who will not receive many times
more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
31 He took the twelve aside and said to them,
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are
written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be
completed. 32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be
mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. 33 They will scourge and kill
him. On the third day, he will rise again.” 34 They understood none of
these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t
understand the things that were said. 35 As he came near Jericho, a
certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this
meant. 37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 38 He
cried out, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!” 39 Those who
led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all
the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!” 40 Standing still,
Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he
asked him,
41 “What do you want me to do?” He said, “Lord,
that I may see again.” 42 Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your
faith has healed you.” 43 Immediately he received his sight and
followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised
God.
(✡) 18:20 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
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entertains Christ. The parable of the pounds. Christ rides upon an ass
and weeps over Jerusalem.
1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. 2
There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he
was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of
the crowd, because he was short. 4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into
a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. 5 When
Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him,
“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge
with a man who is a sinner.” 8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord,
“Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have
wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.” 9
Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he
also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
11 As they heard these things, he went on and told
a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s
Kingdom would be revealed immediately. 12 He said therefore, “A certain
nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and
to return. 13 He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina
coins, (*) and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ 14 But his
citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want
this man to reign over us.’ 15 “When he had come back again, having
received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained
by conducting business.
16 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your
mina has made ten more minas.’ 17 “He said to him, ‘Well done, you good
servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall
have authority over ten cities.’ 18 “The second came, saying, ‘Your
mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ 19 “So he said to him, ‘And you are
to be over five cities.’ 20 Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your
mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting
man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which
you didn’t sow.’ 22 “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will
judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man,
taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t
sow. 23 Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my
coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ 24 He said to those who
stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the
ten minas.’ 25 “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
26 ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will
more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has
will be taken away from him. 27 But bring those enemies of mine who
didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ” 28
Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29
When he came near to Bethsphage (†) and Bethany, at the mountain that
is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, 30 saying, “Go your way
into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will
find a colt tied, which no man has ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it.
31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’
say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’ ” 32 Those who were sent went away and
found things just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the
colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They
said, “The Lord needs it.” 35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw
their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them.
36 As he went, they spread their cloaks on the
road. 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of
Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had
seen, 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the
Lord! (✡) Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” 39 Some of the
Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your
disciples!” 40 He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent,
the stones would cry out.”
41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over
it, 42 saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which
belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For
the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade
against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash
you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in
you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your
visitation.” 45 He entered into the temple and began to drive out those
who bought and sold in it,
46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a
house of prayer,’ (✡) but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” (✡) 47
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the
scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. 48
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to
every word that he said.
(*) 19:13 10 minas was more than 3 years’ wages for an
agricultural laborer.
(†) 19:29 TR, NU read “Bethpage” instead of “Bethsphage”
(✡) 19:38 Psalm 118:26
(✡) 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
(✡) 19:46 Jeremiah 7:11
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The
parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute to Caesar and of the
resurrection of the dead.
1 On one of those days, as he was teaching the
people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the (*) priests and
scribes came to him with the elders. 2 They asked him, “Tell us: by
what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this
authority?” 3 He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell
me: 4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?” 5 They
reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will
say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’
6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will
stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” 7 They
answered that they didn’t know where it was from. 8 Jesus said to them,
“Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” 9 He
began to tell the people this parable: “A (†) man planted a vineyard
and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a
long time. 10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to
collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat
him and sent him away empty.
11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat
him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 12 He sent yet
a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out. 13 The lord of
the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may
be that seeing him, they will respect him.’ 14 “But when the farmers
saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir.
Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15 Then they
threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the
lord of the vineyard do to them?
16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will
give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May
that never be!” 17 But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this
that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the
chief cornerstone?’ (✡) 18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be
broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.” 19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very
hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this
parable against them. 20 They watched him and sent out spies, who
pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he
said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the
governor.
21 They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say
and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach
the way of God. 22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you
test me? 24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”
They answered, “Caesar’s.” 25 He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
26 They weren’t able to trap him in his words
before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent. 27 Some
of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a
resurrection. 28 They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a
man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother
should take the wife and raise up children for his brother. 29 There
were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died
childless. 30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all
left no children, and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the
seven had her as a wife.” 34 Jesus said to them, “The children of this
age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are considered
worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither
marry nor are given in marriage.
36 For they can’t die any more, for they are like
the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he
called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.’ (✡) 38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living,
for all are alive to him.” 39 Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher,
you speak well.” 40 They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
41 He said to them, “Why do they say that the
Christ is David’s son? 42 David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, 43 until I make your
enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’ (✡) 44 “David therefore calls
him Lord, so how is he his son?” 45 In the hearing of all the people,
he said to his disciples,
46 “Beware of those scribes who like to walk in
long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in
the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; 47 who devour widows’
houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive
greater condemnation.”
(*) 20:1 TR adds “chief”
(†) 20:9 NU (in brackets) and TR add “certain”
(✡) 20:17 Psalm 118:22
(✡) 20:37 Exodus 3:6
(✡) 20:43 Psalm 110:1
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The
widow's mites. The signs that should forerun the destruction of
Jerusalem and the end of the world.
1 He looked up and saw the rich people who were
putting their gifts into the treasury. 2 He saw a certain poor widow
casting in two small brass coins. (*) 3 He said, “Truly I tell you,
this poor widow put in more than all of them, 4 for all these put in
gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in
all that she had to live on.” 5 As some were talking about the temple
and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
6 “As for these things which you see, the days will
come in which there will not be left here one stone on another that
will not be thrown down.” 7 They asked him, “Teacher, so when will
these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to
happen?” 8 He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many
will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he (†),’ and, ‘The time is at
hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. 9 When you hear of wars and
disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first,
but the end won’t come immediately.” 10 Then he said to them, “Nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and
plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from
heaven. 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on
you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and
prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. 13
It will turn out as a testimony for you. 14 Settle it therefore in your
hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you
a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to
withstand or to contradict.
16 You will be handed over even by parents,
brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put
to death. 17 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. 18 And
not a hair of your head will perish. 19 “By your endurance you will win
your lives. 20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then
know that its desolation is at hand.
21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who
are in the country not enter therein. 22 For these are days of
vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 Woe
to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days!
For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.
24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive
into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles
until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25 “There will be signs
in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in
perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
26 men fainting for fear and for expectation of the
things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens
will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud
with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to happen,
look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.” 29 He
told them a parable. “See the fig tree and all the trees. 30 When they
are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the
summer is already near.
31 Even so you also, when you see these things
happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. 32 Most certainly I tell
you, this generation will not pass away until all things are
accomplished. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by
no means pass away. 34 “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded
down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day
will come on you suddenly. 35 For it will come like a snare on all
those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that
you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen,
and to stand before the Son of Man.” 37 Every day Jesus was teaching in
the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the
mountain that is called Olivet. 38 All the people came early in the
morning to him in the temple to hear him.
(*) 21:2 literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s
wages for an agricultural laborer.
(†) 21:8 or, I AM
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The
treason of Judas. The last supper. The first part of the history of the
passion.
1 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called
the Passover, was approaching. 2 The chief priests and the scribes
sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. 3
Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted
with the twelve. 4 He went away and talked with the chief priests and
captains about how he might deliver him to them. 5 They were glad, and
agreed to give him money.
6 He consented and sought an opportunity to deliver
him to them in the absence of the multitude. 7 The day of unleavened
bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent
Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we
may eat.” 9 They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?” 10 He
said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man
carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house
which he enters.
11 Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says
to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my
disciples?” ’ 12 He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make
preparations there.” 13 They went, found things as Jesus had told them,
and they prepared the Passover. 14 When the hour had come, he sat down
with the twelve apostles. 15 He said to them, “I have earnestly desired
to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
16 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means
eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.” 17 He received a
cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this and share it
among yourselves, 18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from
the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.” 19 He took bread,
and when he had given thanks, he broke and gave it to them, saying,
“This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.” 20
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new
covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
21 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is
with me on the table. 22 The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been
determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!” 23 They
began to question among themselves which of them it was who would do
this thing. 24 A dispute also arose among them, which of them was
considered to be greatest. 25 He said to them, “The kings of the
nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are
called ‘benefactors.’
26 But not so with you. Rather, the one who is
greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is
governing, as one who serves. 27 For who is greater, one who sits at
the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I
am among you as one who serves. 28 “But you are those who have
continued with me in my trials. 29 I confer on you a kingdom, even as
my Father conferred on me, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in
my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.”
31 The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan
asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat, 32 but I
prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have
turned again, establish your brothers.” (*) 33 He said to him, “Lord, I
am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” 34 He said, “I
tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny
that you know me three times.” 35 He said to them, “When I sent you out
without purse, bag, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said,
“Nothing.”
36 Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a
purse, let him take it, and likewise a bag. Whoever has none, let him
sell his cloak, and buy a sword. 37 For I tell you that this which is
written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with
transgressors.’ (✡) For that which concerns me is being fulfilled.” 38
They said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.” He said to them, “That
is enough.” 39 He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of
Olives. His disciples also followed him. 40 When he was at the place,
he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”
41 He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s
throw, and he knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if you are
willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours,
be done.” 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
44 Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like
great drops of blood falling down on the ground. 45 When he rose up
from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping
because of grief,
46 and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and
pray that you may not enter into temptation.” 47 While he was still
speaking, a crowd appeared. He who was called Judas, one of the twelve,
was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him. 48 But Jesus said
to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” 49 When
those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to
him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?” 50 A certain one of them
struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
51 But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do
this”—and he touched his ear and healed him. 52 Jesus said to the chief
priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him,
“Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? 53 When
I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands
against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.” 54 They
seized him and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s
house. But Peter followed from a distance. 55 When they had kindled a
fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter
sat among them.
56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the
light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
57 He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.” 58 After a
little while someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them!”
But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!” 59 After about one hour passed,
another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with
him, for he is a Galilean!” 60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what
you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a
rooster crowed.
61 The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter
remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster
crows you will deny me three times.” 62 He went out, and wept bitterly.
63 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. 64 Having
blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy!
Who is the one who struck you?” 65 They spoke many other things against
him, insulting him.
66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the
elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and
scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying, 67 “If you
are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you
won’t believe, 68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me
go. 69 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of
the power of God.” 70 They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He
said to them, “You say it, because I am.”
71 They said, “Why do we need any more witness? For
we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”
(*) 22:32 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly
translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
(✡) 22:37 Isaiah 53:12
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The
continuation of the history of the passion.
1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him
before Pilate. 2 They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man
perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying
that he himself is Christ, a king.” 3 Pilate asked him, “Are you the
King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.” 4 Pilate said to the
chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against
this man.” 5 But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people,
teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this
place.”
6 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked
if the man was a Galilean. 7 When he found out that he was in Herod’s
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during
those days. 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he
had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things
about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. 9 He questioned
him with many words, but he gave no answers. 10 The chief priests and
the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and
mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to
Pilate. 12 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very
day, for before that they were enemies with each other. 13 Pilate
called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, 14 and
said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the
people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis
for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you
accuse him. 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see,
nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
16 I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
17 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. (*) 18 But
they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us
Barabbas!”— 19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in
the city, and for murder. 20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting
to release Jesus,
21 but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify
him!” 22 He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man
done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise
him and release him.” 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking
that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief
priests prevailed. 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be
done. 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for
insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up
to their will.
26 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon
of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry
it after Jesus. 27 A great multitude of the people followed him,
including women who also mourned and lamented him. 28 But Jesus,
turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but
weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days are
coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that
never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30 Then they will begin
to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’ (✡)
31 For if they do these things in the green tree,
what will be done in the dry?” 32 There were also others, two
criminals, led with him to be put to death. 33 When they came to the
place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the
criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. 34 Jesus said,
“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. 35 The people stood
watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved
others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen
one!”
36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and
offering him vinegar, 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews,
save yourself!” 38 An inscription was also written over him in letters
of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” 39 One of
the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the
Christ, save yourself and us!” 40 But the other answered, and rebuking
him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same
condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due
reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 He said
to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” 43 Jesus
said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in
Paradise.” 44 It was now about the sixth hour, (†) and darkness came
over the whole land until the ninth hour. (‡) 45 The sun was darkened,
and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his
last. 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” 48 All the multitudes
that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were
done, returned home beating their breasts. 49 All his acquaintances and
the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance,
watching these things. 50 Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was
a member of the council, a good and righteous man
51 (he had not consented to their counsel and
deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for
God’s Kingdom. 52 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
53 He took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a
tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. 54 It was
the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. 55 The
women who had come with him out of Galilee followed after, and saw the
tomb and how his body was laid.
56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
(*) 23:17 NU omits verse 17.
(✡) 23:30 Hosea 10:8
(†) 23:44 Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about
noon.
(‡) 23:44 3:00 p.m.
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Christ's
resurrection and manifestation of himself to his disciples.
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn,
they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they
had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 They
entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. 4 While they were
greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling
clothing. 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the
earth. The men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told
you when he was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be
delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the
third day rise again?” 8 They remembered his words, 9 returned from the
tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10
Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The
other women with them told these things to the apostles.
11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and
they didn’t believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.
Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by
themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named
Emmaus, which was sixty stadia (*) from Jerusalem. 14 They talked with
each other about all of these things which had happened. 15 While they
talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with
them.
16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
17 He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are
sad?” 18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only
stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened
there in these days?” 19 He said to them, “What things?” They said to
him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; 20 and how the
chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death,
and crucified him.
21 But we were hoping that it was he who would
redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since
these things happened. 22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us,
having arrived early at the tomb; 23 and when they didn’t find his
body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who
said that he was alive. 24 Some of us went to the tomb and found it
just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.” 25 He said to
them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken!
26 Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things
and to enter into his glory?” 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the
prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things
concerning himself. 28 They came near to the village where they were
going, and he acted like he would go further. 29 They urged him,
saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost
over.” He went in to stay with them. 30 When he had sat down at the
table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he
gave it to them.
31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him;
then he vanished out of their sight. 32 They said to one another,
“Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the
way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 They rose up that
very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered
together, and those who were with them, 34 saying, “The Lord is risen
indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 They related the things that
happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the
breaking of the bread.
36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood
among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” 37 But they were
terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a
spirit. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise
in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch
me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that
I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his
feet.
41 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and
wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They
gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 He took them,
and ate in front of them. 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you
while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the
law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be
fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand
the Scriptures.
46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus
it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the
third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You
are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send out the promise of my
Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed
with power from on high.” 50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he
lifted up his hands and blessed them.
51 While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and
was carried up into heaven. 52 They worshiped him and returned to
Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple,
praising and blessing God. Amen.
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(**) What are MT, TR, and NU in
the footnotes?
- MT refers to the Greek Majority Text
New Testament, which is the authoritative basis for this translation.
- TR stands for Textus
Receptus, which is the Greek Text from which the King James Version New
Testament was translated.
- NU stands for the
Nestle-Aland/UBS critical text of the Greek New Testament, which is
used as a basis for some other Bible translations.
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