tcent Luke:12-13

tcent@Luke:12:1 @ In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trampled one another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, »Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

tcent@Luke:12:2 @ There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

tcent@Luke:12:3 @ Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

tcent@Luke:12:4 @ »I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

tcent@Luke:12:5 @ But I will show you whom you should fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear him!

tcent@Luke:12:6 @ Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

tcent@Luke:12:7 @ Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

tcent@Luke:12:8 @ »I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God.

tcent@Luke:12:9 @ But he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

tcent@Luke:12:10 @ And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

tcent@Luke:12:11 @ Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;

tcent@Luke:12:12 @ for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.«

tcent@Luke:12:13 @ Someone in the crowd said to him, »Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.«

tcent@Luke:12:14 @ But he said to him, »Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?«

tcent@Luke:12:15 @ And he said to them, »Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.«

tcent@Luke:12:16 @ And he told them a parable, saying: »The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.

tcent@Luke:12:17 @ And he thought to himself, What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?

tcent@Luke:12:18 @ And he said, I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

tcent@Luke:12:19 @ And I will say to my soul, »Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.«

tcent@Luke:12:20 @ But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?

tcent@Luke:12:21 @ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.«

tcent@Luke:12:22 @ Then he said to his disciples, »Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about your body, what you will put on.

tcent@Luke:12:23 @ For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

tcent@Luke:12:24 @ Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

tcent@Luke:12:25 @ And which of you by worrying can add a single cubit to his span of life?

tcent@Luke:12:26 @ If you then are not able to do this very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest?

tcent@Luke:12:27 @ Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

tcent@Luke:12:28 @ But if God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

tcent@Luke:12:29 @ And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor have an anxious mind.

tcent@Luke:12:30 @ For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

tcent@Luke:12:31 @ But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

tcent@Luke:12:32 @ Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

tcent@Luke:12:33 @ Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves purses that do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

tcent@Luke:12:34 @ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

tcent@Luke:12:35 @ »Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning,

tcent@Luke:12:36 @ and be like men who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, so that they may open to him immediately when he comes and knocks.

tcent@Luke:12:37 @ Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and will come and serve them.

tcent@Luke:12:38 @ If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants.

tcent@Luke:12:39 @ But know this, that if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

tcent@Luke:12:40 @ Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.«

tcent@Luke:12:41 @ Peter said, »Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to all?«

tcent@Luke:12:42 @ And the Lord said, »Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

tcent@Luke:12:43 @ Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

tcent@Luke:12:44 @ Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

tcent@Luke:12:45 @ But if that servant says to himself, My master is delayed in coming, and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

tcent@Luke:12:46 @ the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour he is not aware of, and he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

tcent@Luke:12:47 @ And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not ready himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

tcent@Luke:12:48 @ But he who did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask the more.

tcent@Luke:12:49 @ »I came to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

tcent@Luke:12:50 @ But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

tcent@Luke:12:51 @ Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

tcent@Luke:12:52 @ For from now on there will be five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

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tcent@Luke:12:54 @ He also said to the multitudes, »When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, »A shower is coming; and so it happens.

tcent@Luke:12:55 @ And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, There will be hot weather; and there is.

tcent@Luke:12:56 @ You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; but how is it you do not know how to interpret this present time?

tcent@Luke:12:57 @ »And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

tcent@Luke:12:58 @ As you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

tcent@Luke:12:59 @ I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the very last copper.«

tcent@Luke:13:1 @ There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

tcent@Luke:13:2 @ And Jesus answered them, »Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?

tcent@Luke:13:3 @ I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

tcent@Luke:13:4 @ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem?

tcent@Luke:13:5 @ I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.«

tcent@Luke:13:6 @ He told this parable: »A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

tcent@Luke:13:7 @ So he said to the keeper of his vineyard, Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?

tcent@Luke:13:8 @ And he answered him, Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

tcent@Luke:13:9 @ And if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, you can cut it down.«

tcent@Luke:13:10 @ Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

tcent@Luke:13:11 @ And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

tcent@Luke:13:12 @ When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, »Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.«

tcent@Luke:13:13 @ And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and praised God.

tcent@Luke:13:14 @ But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, »There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.«

tcent@Luke:13:15 @ Then the Lord answered him, »You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

tcent@Luke:13:16 @ Then ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, be loosed on the Sabbath day from this bond?«

tcent@Luke:13:17 @ When he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

tcent@Luke:13:18 @ Then he said, »What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?

tcent@Luke:13:19 @ It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.«

tcent@Luke:13:20 @ And again he said, »To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

tcent@Luke:13:21 @ It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour till it was all leavened.«

tcent@Luke:13:22 @ He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.

tcent@Luke:13:23 @ Then one said to him, »Lord, will those who are saved be few?« And he said to them,

tcent@Luke:13:24 @ »Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

tcent@Luke:13:25 @ When once the owner of the house has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open for us. He will answer you, I do not know where you come from.

tcent@Luke:13:26 @ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.

tcent@Luke:13:27 @ But he will say, I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!

tcent@Luke:13:28 @ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

tcent@Luke:13:29 @ And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.

tcent@Luke:13:30 @ And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.«

tcent@Luke:13:31 @ At that very time some Pharisees came, and said to him, »Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.«

tcent@Luke:13:32 @ And 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 finish my course.

tcent@Luke:13:33 @ Nevertheless I must journey today and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

tcent@Luke:13:34 @ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

tcent@Luke:13:35 @ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!«

tcent@Luke:14:1 @ One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they watched him.

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