Luke 16:1-19:10

^16:1 He also said to his talmidim, “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 do not 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 for his shrewdness, for the people of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the people of light. ⁹ And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it is gone they may welcome you into the everlasting dwellings. 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 are not able to serve God and wealth.”

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 people, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among people is an abomination in the sight of God. ¹⁶ The Law and the Prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God 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 become void. 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 placed at 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 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. ²³ In Sheol, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. ²⁴ He called out 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 like manner, bad things. But now here he is 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 none 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 do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'”

^17:1 He said to the talmidim, “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 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

⁵ The emissaries 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 mulberry 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 But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink, and afterward you can eat and drink’? ⁹ Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? 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 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that 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, “Yeshua, Master, have mercy on us.”

¹⁴ When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the cohanim.” It happened that 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 Yeshua’s feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ Yeshua 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 stranger?” ¹⁹ Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

²⁰ Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹ neither will they say, ‘Look, here.’ or, ‘Look, there.’ for the Kingdom of God is within you.”

²² He said to the talmidim, “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 And they will tell you, ‘Look, there.’ or ‘Look, here.’ Do not go away, nor follow after them, ²⁴ for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other 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 happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the box-shaped vessel, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise, even as it happened 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 keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The 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 will the vultures also be gathered together.”

^18:1 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 did not fear God, and did not respect people. ³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ ⁴ He would not for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect people, ⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her justice, 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 spoke also 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 to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like other people, extortioners, 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, would not 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 Now they were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the talmidim saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶ Yeshua summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷ Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

¹⁸ A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?”

¹⁹ Yeshua asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God. ²⁰ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.'”

²¹ And he said, “I have kept all these things from my youth up.”

²² When Yeshua heard it, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

²³ But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

²⁴ And Yeshua looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God. ²⁵ For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich person to enter into the Kingdom of God.”

²⁶ Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

²⁷ But he said, “The things which are impossible with man are possible with God.”

²⁸ And Peter said, “Look, we have left our own things and followed you.”

²⁹ He said to them, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake, ³⁰ who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, everlasting life.”

³¹ He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Look, 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 non-Jews, 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 did not understand the things that were said. ³⁵ It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. ³⁶ Hearing a crowd going by, he asked what this meant. ³⁷ They told him that Yeshua of Nazareth was passing by. ³⁸ He called out, “Yeshua, Son of David,  have mercy on me.” ³⁹ Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me.”

⁴⁰ Standing still, Yeshua 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 Yeshua said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

⁴³ And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

^19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. ² And look, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. ³ He was trying to see who Yeshua was, and could not 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 to pass that way. ⁵ And as he came to the place, looking up, Yeshua 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 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

⁸ And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, 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 Yeshua 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.”