Category: Luke

[11:29] When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

[11:30] For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

[11:31] The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

[11:32] The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

[11:33] “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

[11:34] Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

[11:35] Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

[11:36] If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

[11:37] While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.

[11:38] The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

[11:39] And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

[11:40] You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

[11:41] But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

[11:42] “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

[11:43] Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

[11:44] Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

[11:45] One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”

[11:46] And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

[11:47] Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.

[11:48] So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

[11:49] Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

[11:50] so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

[11:51] from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

[11:52] Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

[11:53] As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,

[11:54] lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

[12:1] In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

[12:2] Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

[12:3] Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

[12:4] “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

[12:5] But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

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

[12:7] Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

[12:8] “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,

[12:9] but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

[12:10] And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

[12:11] And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,

[12:12] for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

[12:13] Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

[12:14] But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”

[12:15] And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

[12:16] And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully,

[12:17] and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

[12:18] And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

[12:19] And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’

[12:20] But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

[12:21] So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

[12:22] And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

[12:23] For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

[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!

[12:25] And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

[12:26] If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

[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.

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

[12:29] And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.

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

[12:31] Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

[12:32] “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

[12:33] Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

[12:34] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

[12:35] “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,

[12:36] and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.

[12:37] Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.

[12:38] If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

[12:39] But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

[12:40] You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

[12:41] Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”

[12:42] And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

[12:43] Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

[12:44] Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

[12:45] But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

[12:46] the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

[12:47] And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

[12:48] But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

[12:49] “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!

[12:50] I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!

[12:51] Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

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

[12:53] They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”