The Good News According to Loukas
1:1Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative
concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
1:2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and
ministers of the word delivered them to us,
1:3it 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; 1:4that you might
know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
1:5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Yehudah, a
certain kohen named Zekharyah, of the priestly
division of Aviyah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aharon, and her
name was Elisheva. 1:6They were both
righteous before G-d, walking blamelessly in all the
mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
1:7But they had no child, because Elisheva was barren, and they
both were well advanced in years.
1:8Now it happened, while he executed the kohen's
office before G-d in the order of his division,
1:9according to the custom of the kohen's
office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn
incense.
1:10The whole multitude of the people
were praying outside at the hour of incense.
1:11An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right
side of the altar of incense. 1:12Zekharyah was
troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
1:13But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zekharyah,
because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elisheva, will
bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yochanan.
1:14You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his
birth.
1:15For 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.
1:16He will turn many of the children of Yisra'el to the Lord,
their G-d.
1:17He will go before him in the
spirit and power of Eliyah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make
ready a people prepared for the Lord."
1:18Zekharyah 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."
1:19The angel answered him, "I am Gavri'el, who stands in the
presence of G-d. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this
good news.
1:20Behold, 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."
1:21The people were waiting for Zekharyah, and they marveled that
he delayed in the temple. 1:22When he came
out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a
vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained
mute. 1:23It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he
departed to his house. 1:24After these
days Elisheva, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months,
saying,
1:25"Thus has the Lord done to me in
the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among
men."
1:26Now in the sixth month, the angel Gavri'el was sent from G-d
to a city of the Galil, named Natzeret,
1:27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was
Yosef, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Miryam.
1:28Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly
favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!"
1:29But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying,
and considered what kind of salutation this might be.
1:30The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Miryam, for you have
found favor with G-d. 1:31Behold, you
will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his
name 'Yeshua.'
1:32He will be great, and will be
called the Son of Ha`Elyon. The Lord G-d will give
him the throne of his father, David,
1:33and he will reign over the house of Ya`akov forever. There
will be no end to his Kingdom."
1:34Miryam said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a
virgin?"
1:35The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you,
and the power of Ha`Elyon will overshadow you.
Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the
Son of G-d.
1:36Behold, Elisheva, your
relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the
sixth month with her who was called barren.
1:37For everything spoken by G-d is possible."
1:38Miryam said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me
according to your word."
The angel departed from her.
1:39Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country
with haste, into a city of Yehudah,
1:40and entered into the house of Zekharyah and greeted Elisheva.
1:41It happened, when Elisheva heard Miryam's greeting, that the
baby leaped in her womb, and Elisheva was filled with the Holy Spirit.
1:42She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you
among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
1:43Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come
to me?
1:44For behold, when the voice of your
greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
1:45Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment
of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
1:46Miryam said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord.
1:47My spirit has rejoiced in G-d my Savior,
1:48For he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid.
For behold, from now on, all generations will call me
blessed.
1:49For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
1:50His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear
him.
1:51He has shown
strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
1:52He has put
down princes from their thrones.
And has exalted the lowly.
1:53He has filled
the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.
1:54He has given
help to Yisra'el, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
1:55As he spoke to our fathers,
To Avraham and his seed forever."
1:56Miryam stayed with her about three months, and then returned
to her house.
1:57Now the time that Elisheva
should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son.
1:58Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had
magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
1:59It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise
the child; and they would have called him Zekharyah, after the name of
the father.
1:60His mother answered, "Not so;
but he will be called Yochanan."
1:61They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who
is called by this name." 1:62They made
signs to his father, what he would have him called.
1:63He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is
Yochanan."
They all marveled.
1:64His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and
he spoke, blessing G-d. 1:65Fear came on
all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about
throughout all the hill country of Yehudah.
1:66All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What
then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
1:67His father, Zekharyah, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and
prophesied, saying,
1:68"Blessed be
the Lord, the G-d of Yisra'el,
For he has visited and worked redemption for his people;
1:69And has
raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
1:70(As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been
from of old),
1:71Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate
us;
1:72To show mercy
towards our fathers,
To remember his holy covenant,
1:73The oath
which he spoke to Avraham, our father,
1:74To grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of
our enemies, should serve him without fear,
1:75In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our
life.
1:76And you,
child, will be called a prophet of Ha`Elyon,
For you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his
ways,
1:77To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission
of their sins,
1:78Because of
the tender mercy of our G-d,
Whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
1:79To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of
death;
To guide our feet into the way of shalom."
1:80The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was
in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Yisra'el.
2:1Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
2:2This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was
governor of Aram. 2:3All went to
enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.
2:4Yosef also went up from the Galil, out of the city of
Natzeret, into Yehudah, to the city of David, which is called
Beit-Lechem, because he was of the house and family of David;
2:5to enroll himself with Miryam, who was pledged to be married
to him as wife, being pregnant.
2:6It happened, while they were there, that the day had come
that she should give birth. 2:7She brought
forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and
laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in
the inn.
2:8There were shepherds in the same
country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their
flock. 2:9Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of
the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
2:10The 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.
2:11For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a
Savior, who is Messiah the Lord.
2:12This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in
strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
2:13Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising G-d, and saying,
2:14"Glory to G-d
in the highest,
On earth shalom, good will toward men."
2:15It happened, when the angels went away from them into the
sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go to Beit-Lechem,
now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made
known to us."
2:16They came with haste, and
found both Miryam and Yosef, and the baby was lying in the feeding
trough.
2:17When they saw it, they publicized
widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
2:18All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to
them by the shepherds. 2:19But Miryam
kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
2:20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising G-d for all
the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
2:21When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the
child, his name was called Yeshua, which was given by the angel before
he was conceived in the womb.
2:22When the days of their purification according to the law of
Moshe were fulfilled, they brought him up to Yerushalayim, to present
him to the Lord 2:23(as it is
written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall
be called holy to the Lord"), 2:24and to offer
a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
2:25Behold, there was a man in Yerushalayim whose name was
Shim`on. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the
consolation of Yisra'el, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
2:26It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should
not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah.
2:27He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents
brought in the child, Yeshua, that they might do concerning him
according to the custom of the law,
2:28then he received him into his arms, and blessed G-d, and
said,
2:29"Now you are
releasing your servant, Master,
According to your word, in shalom;
2:30For my eyes
have seen your yeshu`ah,
2:31Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
2:32A light for
revelation to the Goyim,
And the glory of your people Yisra'el."
2:33Yosef and his mother were marveling at the things which were
spoken concerning him, 2:34and Shim`on
blessed them, and said to Miryam, his mother, "Behold, this child is
set for the falling and the rising of many in Yisra'el, and for a sign
which is spoken against. 2:35Yes, a sword
will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts
may be revealed."
2:36There was one Chanah, a prophetess, the daughter of Penu'el,
of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a
husband seven years from her virginity,
2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who
didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions
night and day.
2:38Coming up at that very hour,
she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were
looking for redemption in Yerushalayim.
2:39When they had accomplished all things that were according to
the law of the Lord, they returned into the Galil, to their own city,
Natzeret.
2:40The child was growing, and was
becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of
G-d was upon him. 2:41His parents
went every year to Yerushalayim at the feast of the Pesach.
2:42When he was twelve years old, they went up to Yerushalayim
according to the custom of the feast,
2:43and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning,
the boy Yeshua stayed behind in Yerushalayim. Yosef and his mother
didn't know it, 2:44but supposing
him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked
for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
2:45When they didn't find him, they returned to Yerushalayim,
looking for him. 2:46It happened
after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of
the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
2:47All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his
answers.
2:48When 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."
2:49He said to them, "Why were you looking
for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"
2:50They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
2:51And he went down with them, and came to Natzeret. He was
subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
2:52And Yeshua increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with
G-d and men.
3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Yehudah, and Herod being tetrarch of
the Galil, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea
and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
3:2in the kohanim gedolim of Anan and Kayafa,
the word of G-d came to Yochanan, the son of Zekharyah, in the
wilderness.
3:3He came into all the region
around the Yarden, preaching the immersion of repentance for remission
of sins.
3:4As it is written in the book of the
words of Yesha`yahu the prophet,
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make ready the way of the Lord.
Make his paths straight.
3:5Every valley will be filled.
Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
The crooked will become straight,
And the rough ways smooth.
3:6All flesh will
see G-d's salvation.'"
3:7He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be
immersed by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from
the wrath to come? 3:8Bring forth
therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among
yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our father;' for I tell you that G-d
is able to raise up children to Avraham from these stones!
3:9Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every
tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and
thrown into the fire."
3:10The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
3:11He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him
who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
3:12Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to
him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
3:13He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is
appointed to you."
3:14Soldiers 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."
3:15As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in
their hearts concerning Yochanan, whether perhaps he was the Messiah,
3:16Yochanan answered them all, "I indeed immerse you with water,
but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am
not worthy to loosen. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
3:17whose 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."
3:18Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to
the people,
3:19but Herod the tetrarch, being
reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil
things which Herod had done, 3:20added this
also to them all, that he shut up Yochanan in prison.
3:21Now it happened, when all the people were immersed, Yeshua
also had been immersed, and was praying. The sky was opened,
3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on
him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son.
In you I am well pleased."
3:23Yeshua himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty
years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Yosef, the son of Eli,
3:24the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Malki, the
son of Yannai, the son of Yosef,
3:25the son of Mattityahu, the son of `Amos, the son of Nachum,
the son of Chesli, the son of Naggai,
3:26the son of Machat, the son of Mattityahu, the son of Shim`i,
the son of Yosef, the son of Yehudah,
3:27the son of Yochanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbavel,
the son of She'alti'el, the son of Neri,
3:28the son of Malki, the son of Addi, the son of Kosam, the son
of Elmadan, the son of `Er, 3:29the son of
Yeshua, the son of Eli`ezer, the son of Yoram, the son of Matthat, the
son of Levi,
3:30the son of Shim`on, the son
of Yehudah, the son of Yosef, the son of Yonam, the son of Elyakim,
3:31the son of Mal'ah, the son of Manah, the son of Mattatah, the
son of Natan, the son of David,
3:32the son of Yishai, the son of `Oved, the son of Bo`az, the
son of Salmon, the son of Nachshon,
3:33the son of `Amminadav, the son of Aram, the son of Yoram, the
son of Chetzron, the son of Peretz, the son of Yehudah,
3:34the son of Ya`akov, the son of Yitzchak, the son of Avraham,
the son of Terach, the son of Nachor,
3:35the son of Serug, the son of Re`u, the son of Peleg, the son
of `Ever, the son of Shelach 3:36the son of
Kenan, the son of Arpakhshad, the son of Shem, the son of Noach, the
son of Lamekh,
3:37the son of Metushelach, the
son of Chanokh, the son of Yered, the son of Mahalal'el, the son of
Kenan,
3:38the son of Enosh, the son of Shet,
the son of Adam, the son of G-d.
4:1Yeshua, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Yarden,
and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
4:2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in
those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
4:3The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of G-d, command
this stone to become bread."
4:4Yeshua answered him, saying, "It is
written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of
G-d.'"
4:5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all
the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
4:6The 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. 4:7If you
therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
4:8Yeshua answered him, "Get behind me
Hasatan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your G-d, and
him only shall you serve.'"
4:9He led him to Yerushalayim, and set him on the pinnacle of
the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of G-d, cast yourself
down from here, 4:10for it is
written,
'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to
guard you;'
4:11and,
'On their hands they will bear you up,
Lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"
4:12Yeshua answering, said to him, "It has
been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your G-d.'"
4:13When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed
from him until another time.
4:14Yeshua returned in the power of the Spirit into the Galil,
and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
4:15He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
4:16He came to Natzeret, where he had been brought up. He
entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat,
and stood up to read. 4:17The book of
the prophet Yesha`yahu was handed to him. He opened the book, and
found the place where it was written,
4:18"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 brokenhearted,
To proclaim release to the captives,
Recovering of sight to the blind,
To deliver those who are crushed,
4:19And to proclaim the acceptable year of the
Lord."
4:20He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat
down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
4:21He began to tell them, "Today, this
Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
4:22All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Yosef's
son?"
4:23He said to them, "Doubtless you will
tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have
heard done at Kafar-Nachum, do also here in your hometown.'"
4:24He said, "Most
assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
4:25But truly I tell you, there were many widows
in Yisra'el in the days of Eliyah, when the sky was shut up three
years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
4:26Eliyah was sent to none of them, except to
Tzarfat, in the land of Tzidon, to a woman who was a widow.
4:27There were many lepers in Yisra'el in the
time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except
Na`aman, the Arammian."
4:28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they
heard these things. 4:29They 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.
4:30But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
4:31He came down to Kafar-Nachum, a city of the Galil. He was
teaching them on the day of Shabbat,
4:32and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was
with authority. 4:33In the
synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he
cried out with a loud voice, 4:34saying, "Ah!
what have we to do with you, Yeshua of Natzeret? Have you come to
destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of G-d!"
4:35Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be silent,
and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in
their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
4:36Amazement 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!"
4:37News about him went out into every place of the surrounding
region.
4:38He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Shim`on's
house. Shim`on's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and
they begged him for her. 4:39He stood over
her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up
and served them. 4:40When 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. 4:41Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You
are the Messiah, the Son of G-d!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them
to speak, because they knew that he was the Messiah.
4:42When 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.
4:43But he said to them, "I must preach the
good news of the Kingdom of G-d to the other cities also. For this
reason I have been sent."
4:44He was preaching in the synagogues of the Galil.
5:1Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard
the word of G-d, that he was standing by the lake of Ginosar.
5:2He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had
gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
5:3He entered into one of the boats, which was Shim`on's, and
asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught
the multitudes from the boat. 5:4When he had
finished speaking, he said to Shim`on, "Put out
into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."
5:5Shim`on answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took
nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."
5:6When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of
fish, and their net was breaking.
5:7They 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. 5:8But Shim`on
Kefa, when he saw it, fell down at Yeshua#s knees, saying, "Depart
from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."
5:9For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of
fish which they had caught; 5:10and so also
were Ya`akov and Yochanan, sons of Zavdai, who were partners with
Shim`on.
Yeshua said to Shim`on, "Don't
be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."
5:11When they had brought their boats to land, they left
everything, and followed him. 5:12It happened,
while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of
leprosy. When he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face, and begged him,
saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
5:13He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying,
"I want to. Be made clean."
Immediately the leprosy left him.
5:14He charged him to tell no one, "But go
your way, and show yourself to the kohen, and offer
for your cleansing according to what Moshe commanded, for a testimony
to them." 5:15But the
report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came
together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
5:16But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
5:17It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and
there were Perushim and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come
out of every village of the Galil, Yehudah, and Yerushalayim. The
power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
5:18Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought
to bring him in to lay before Yeshua.
5:19Not 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 midst before Yeshua.
5:20Seeing their faith, he said to him,
"Man, your sins are forgiven you."
5:21The scribes and the Perushim began to reason, saying, "Who is
this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but G-d alone?"
5:22But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, answered them,
"Why are you reasoning so in your
hearts?
5:23Which is easier to
say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
5:24But 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, and take
up your cot, and go to your house."
5:25Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he
was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying G-d.
5:26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified G-d. They were
filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
5:27After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named
Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him,
"Follow me!"
5:28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
5:29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a
great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
5:30Their scribes and the Perushim murmured against his
talmidim, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with
the tax collectors and sinners?"
5:31Yeshua answered them,
"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are
sick do.
5:32I have not come to
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
5:33They said to him, "Why do Yochanan's talmidim
often fast and pray, likewise also the talmidim of
the Perushim, but yours eat and drink?"
5:34He said to them, "Can
you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is
with them?
5:35But the days
will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they
will fast in those days."
5:36He 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. 5:37No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine
will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be
destroyed.
5:38But new wine
must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
5:39No man having drunk old wine immediately
desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
6:1Now it happened on the second Shabbat after the first, that
he was going through the grain fields. His talmidim
plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
6:2But some of the Perushim said to them, "Why do you do that
which is not lawful to do on the day of Shabbat?"
6:3Yeshua, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry,
he, and those who were with him;
6:4how he entered into the house of G-d, 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 kohanim
alone?" 6:5He said to
them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Shabbat."
6:6It also happened on another Shabbat that he entered into the
synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was
withered.
6:7The scribes and the Perushim
watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Shabbat, that they
might find an accusation against him.
6:8But 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.
6:9Then Yeshua said to them, "I will ask
you something: Is it lawful on the Shabbat to do good, or to do harm?
To save a life, or to kill?"
6:10He 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.
6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another
about what they might do to Yeshua.
6:12It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain
to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to G-d.
6:13When it was day, he called his talmidim,
and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named emissaries:
6:14Shim`on, whom he also named Kefa; Andrai, his brother;
Ya`akov; Yochanan; Philip; Bar-Talmai;
6:15Mattityahu; T'oma; Ya`akov, the son of Chalfai; Shim`on, who
was called the Zealot; 6:16Yehudah the
son of Ya`akov; and Yehudah from K'riot, who also became a traitor.
6:17He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a
crowd of his talmidim, and a great number of the
people from all Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and the sea coast of Tzor
and Tzidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
6:18as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and
they were being healed. 6:19All the
multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed
them all.
6:20He lifted up his eyes to his talmidim, and
said,
"Blessed
are you who are poor,
For yours is the Kingdom of G-d.
6:21Blessed are you who hunger now,
For you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
For you will laugh.
6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall
exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of
Man's sake.
6:23Rejoice 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.
6:24"But woe to you who are rich!
For you have received your consolation.
6:25Woe to you, you who are full now!
For you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now!
For you will mourn and weep.
6:26Woe, when men speak well of you!
For their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
6:27"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you, 6:28bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat
you. 6:29To 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. 6:30Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes
away your goods to give them back again.
6:31"As you would like people to do to you, do
exactly so to them. 6:32If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
For even sinners love those who love them.
6:33If you do good to those who do good to you,
what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
6:34If 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. 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting
nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children
of Ha`Elyon; for he is kind toward the unthankful
and evil.
6:36Therefore be merciful,
Even as your Father is also merciful.
6:37Don'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.
6:38"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."
6:39He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall
into a pit?
6:40A
talmid is not above his teacher, but everyone when
he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
6:41Why 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? 6:42Or 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.
6:43For there is no good tree that brings forth
rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.
6:44For 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.
6:45The
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.
6:46"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't
do the things which I say? 6:47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them,
I will show you who he is like.
6:48He 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. 6:49But 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."
7:1After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people,
he entered into Kafar-Nachum. 7:2A certain
centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of
death. 7:3When he heard about Yeshua, he sent to him elders of the
Yehudim, asking him to come and save his servant.
7:4When they came to Yeshua, they begged him earnestly, saying,
"He is worthy for you to do this for him,
7:5for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
7:6Yeshua 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.
7:7Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you;
but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
7:8For 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."
7:9When Yeshua 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 Yisra'el." 7:10Those who
were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been
sick was well.
7:11It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called
Na`im. Many of his talmidim, along with a great
multitude, went with him. 7:12Now when he
drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was
carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many
people of the city were with her.
7:13When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to
her, "Don't cry."
7:14He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood
still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
7:15He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him
to his mother.
7:16Fear took hold of all, and they glorified G-d, saying, "A
great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"
7:17This report went out concerning him in the whole of Yehudah,
and in all the surrounding region.
7:18The talmidim of Yochanan told him about
all these things. 7:19Yochanan,
calling to himself two of his talmidim, sent them
to Yeshua, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look
for another?"
7:20When the men had come to him,
they said, "Yochanan the immerser has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you
he who comes, or should we look for another?'"
7:21In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil
spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
7:22Yeshua answered them,
"Go and tell Yochanan 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. 7:23Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
7:24When Yochanan's messengers had departed, he began to tell the
multitudes about Yochanan, "What
did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
7:25But 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.
7:26But what did you go out to see? A prophet?
Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
7:27This is he of whom it is written,
'Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
Who will prepare your way before you.'
7:28"For I tell you, among those who are born of
women there is not a greater prophet than Yochanan the immerser, yet
he who is least in the Kingdom of G-d is greater than he."
7:29When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they
declared G-d to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan's
immersion.
7:30But the Perushim and the
lawyers rejected the counsel of G-d, not being immersed by him
themselves.
7:31But the Lord said, "To
what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they
like? 7:32They are like children who sit in the
marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and
you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'
7:33For Yochanan the immerser came neither eating
bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking,
and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of
tax collectors and sinners!' 7:35Wisdom is justified by all her children."
7:36One of the Perushim invited him to eat with him. He entered
into the Parush's house, and sat at the table.
7:37Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew
that he was reclining in the Parush's house, she brought an alabaster
jar of ointment. 7:38Standing
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.
7:39Now when the Parush 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."
7:40Yeshua answered him, "Shim`on, I have
something to tell you."
He said, "Teacher, say on."
7:41"A certain lender had two debtors. The one
owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
7:42When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both.
Which of them therefore will love him most?"
7:43Shim`on answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the
most."
He said to him, "You have judged
correctly." 7:44Turning to
the woman, he said to Shim`on,
"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.
7:45You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time
I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
7:46You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she
has anointed my feet with ointment.
7:47Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are
many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is
forgiven, the same loves little."
7:48He said to her, "Your sins are
forgiven."
7:49Those who sat at the table with him began to say to
themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
7:50He said to the woman, "Your faith has
saved you. Go in shalom."
8:1It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through
cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the
Kingdom of G-d. With him were the twelve,
8:2and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and
infirmities: Miryam who was called Magdala, from whom seven demons had
gone out;
8:3and Yochanah, the wife of Kusa,
Herod's steward; Shoshanah; and many others; who ministered to them
from their possessions. 8:4When a great
multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to
him, he spoke by a parable. 8:5"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. 8:6Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it
withered away, because it had no moisture.
8:7Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns
grew with it, and choked it. 8:8Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought
forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these
things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear,
let him hear!"
8:9Then his talmidim asked him, "What does
this parable mean?"
8:10He said, "To you it is
given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of G-d, but to the rest in
parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not
understand.'
8:11Now the
parable is this: The seed is the word of G-d.
8:12Those 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. 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the
word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then
fall away in time of temptation.
8:14That which 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 bring no fruit to maturity.
8:15That in the good ground, these are such
as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it
tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
8:16"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.
8:17For nothing is hidden, that will not be
revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to
light.
8:18Be 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."
8:19His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come
near him for the crowd. 8:20It was told
him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside,
desiring to see you."
8:21But he answered them, "My mother and my
brothers are these who hear the word of G-d, and do it."
8:22Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a
boat, himself and his talmidim, and he said to
them, "Let's go over to the other side of the
lake." So they launched out.
8:23But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on
the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
8:24They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we
are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the
water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
8:25He said to them, "Where is your faith?"
Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then,
that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
8:26They arrived at the country of the Gadara, which is opposite
Galil.
8:27When Yeshua 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.
8:28When he saw Yeshua, he cried out, and fell down before him,
and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Yeshua,
you Son of Ha`Elyon G-d? I beg you, don't torment
me!" 8:29For Yeshua 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 bands
apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
8:30Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into
him. 8:31They begged him that he would not command them to go into the
abyss.
8:32Now 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. He allowed them.
8:33The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs,
and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were
drowned.
8:34When those who fed them saw what
had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
8:35People went out to see what had happened. They came to
Yeshua, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting
at Yeshua#s feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
8:36Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by
demons was healed. 8:37All the
people of the surrounding country of the Gadara asked him to depart
from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat,
and returned.
8:38But the man from whom the
demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Yeshua
sent him away, saying, 8:39"Return to your house, and declare what great things
G-d has done for you." He went his way,
proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Yeshua had
done for him.
8:40It happened, when Yeshua returned, that the multitude
welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
8:41Behold, there came a man named Ya'ir, and he was a ruler of
the synagogue. He fell down at Yeshua#s feet, and begged him to come
into his house, 8:42for he had an
only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he
went, the multitudes pressed against him.
8:43A 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,
8:44came behind him, and touched the tzitzit
of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
8:45Yeshua said, "Who touched me?"
When all denied it, Kefa and those with him said,
"Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say,
'Who touched me?'"
8:46But Yeshua said, "Someone did touch me,
for I perceived that power has gone out of me."
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