mnt - Luke:14-15

mnt@Luke:14:1 @ It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him.

mnt@Luke:14:2 @ And lo! there was in front of him a man who had dropsy.

mnt@Luke:14:3 @ So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

mnt@Luke:14:4 @ They kept silent. Then Jesus took him and healed him and let him go.

mnt@Luke:14:5 @ And to them he said, "Which of you when an ox or ass has fallen into a well, will at once pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

mnt@Luke:14:6 @ They could not answer this.

mnt@Luke:14:7 @ He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them.

mnt@Luke:14:8 @ "When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

mnt@Luke:14:9 @ "Give place to this man, and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place.

mnt@Luke:14:10 @ "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, My friend, come up higher. Then you will be honored before the other guest.

mnt@Luke:14:11 @ "For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

mnt@Luke:14:12 @ Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

mnt@Luke:14:13 @ "But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

mnt@Luke:14:14 @ "Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

mnt@Luke:14:15 @ One of his fellow guest who was listening to him, said to him, "Blessed are those who eat bread in the kingdom of God."

mnt@Luke:14:16 @ Jesus answered. "A certain man was making a great feast to which he invited many guests.

mnt@Luke:14:17 @ "At dinnertime he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, Come, for all things are now ready.

mnt@Luke:14:18 @ "And they all, without exception, proceeded to excuse themselves. The first told him. I have bought a field, and must needs go and see it. Pray have me excused.

mnt@Luke:14:19 @ "The second said. I have bought five yolk of oxen and am on my way to try them. I pray that you will have me excused.

mnt@Luke:14:20 @ "I have taken a wife, said the another, and for that reason I am unable to come.

mnt@Luke:14:21 @ "So the slave came and presented all these answers to his master. Then the master of the house was indignant, and said to his slave. Go out, quickly, into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the blind, the lame.

mnt@Luke:14:22 @ "And the slave said, My master, your orders have been carried out, but yet there is room.

mnt@Luke:14:23 @ "Said the master to his slave. Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

mnt@Luke:14:24 @ "For I tell you that not one of those invited guests shall taste my supper."

mnt@Luke:14:25 @ Great crowds were along with him, and he turned to them and said.

mnt@Luke:14:26 @ "If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

mnt@Luke:14:27 @ "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

mnt@Luke:14:28 @ "Which of you who is desirous of building a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, to see if he has the means to complete it?

mnt@Luke:14:29 @ "Lest it happen that after he has laid the foundations and is unable to complete it, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him saying,

mnt@Luke:14:30 @ "This fellow began to build and could not finish.

mnt@Luke:14:31 @ "Or what king as he goes forth to join battle with another king in war does not sit down first and deliberate whether he can meet with ten thousand men the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

mnt@Luke:14:32 @ "If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.

mnt@Luke:14:33 @ "Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

mnt@Luke:14:34 @ "Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?

mnt@Luke:14:35 @ "It is fit neither for the land nor the dung-hill; men cast it out. He who has ears to hear let him listen to this!"

mnt@Luke:15:1 @ Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

mnt@Luke:15:2 @ And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

mnt@Luke:15:3 @ And he told them a parable.

mnt@Luke:15:4 @ "Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

mnt@Luke:15:5 @ "And after he has found it, he lays it on his shoulder, rejoicing.

mnt@Luke:15:6 @ "When he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.

mnt@Luke:15:7 @ "I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

mnt@Luke:15:8 @ "Or, again, suppose a woman has ten coins. If she loses one, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and search anxiously until she finds it?

mnt@Luke:15:9 @ "And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.

mnt@Luke:15:10 @ "Even so I tell you there is joy in the presence of the angels for God over one sinner who repents."

mnt@Luke:15:11 @ And he said. "There was a man who had two sons.

mnt@Luke:15:12 @ "The younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of your property which is coming to me. So he divided his means among them.

mnt@Luke:15:13 @ "Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

mnt@Luke:15:14 @ "After he had spent everything there came a terrible famine in the land, and he began to be in want.

mnt@Luke:15:15 @ "So he went and hired to one of the citizens of that land, who sent him out into the fields to feed swine.

mnt@Luke:15:16 @ "And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

mnt@Luke:15:17 @ "When he came to himself he said. "How many of my fathers hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

mnt@Luke:15:18 @ "I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

mnt@Luke:15:19 @ ""I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."

mnt@Luke:15:20 @ "So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

mnt@Luke:15:21 @ "The son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called your son.

mnt@Luke:15:22 @ "Fetch the best robe, quick, said the father to his slaves, and put it on him, and give him a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet.

mnt@Luke:15:23 @ "Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry,

mnt@Luke:15:24 @ "for this son of mine was dead and is alive again - he was lost and is found.

mnt@Luke:15:25 @ "So they began to make merry. But his elder son was in the field, and as he drew near to the house he heard music and dancing,

mnt@Luke:15:26 @ "and he summoned one of the slaves, and began to inquire of him what all this meant.

mnt@Luke:15:27 @ "Your brother is come, he replied, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has him safe and sound.

mnt@Luke:15:28 @ "But he was angry and would not go in; so his father came out, and attempted to plead with him; but he said to his father.

mnt@Luke:15:29 @ "All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

mnt@Luke:15:30 @ "But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.

mnt@Luke:15:31 @ "My dear son, answered his father, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours.

mnt@Luke:15:32 @ "But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found."

mnt@Luke:16:1 @ To his disciples he said. "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property.