ARKCODEX
Luke
Ch. 17–19
Sin
1Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that make people fall into sin are bound to happen, but how terrible for the one who makes them happen!
2It would be better for him if a large millstone were tied around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
3So watch what you do! “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
4If he sins against you seven times in one day, and each time he comes to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Faith
5The apostles said to the Lord, “Make our faith greater.”
6The Lord answered, “If you had faith as big as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea!’ and it would obey you.
A Servant's Duty
7“Suppose one of you has a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. When he comes in from the field, do you tell him to hurry along and eat his meal?
8Of course not! Instead, you say to him, ‘Get my supper ready, then put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may have your meal.’
9The servant does not deserve thanks for obeying orders, does he?
10It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, ‘We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.’”
Jesus Heals Ten Men
11As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, he went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
12He was going into a village when he was met by ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease. They stood at a distance
13and shouted, “Jesus! Master! Have pity on us!”
14Jesus saw them and said to them, “Go and let the priests examine you.” On the way they were made clean.
15When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.
16He threw himself to the ground at Jesus' feet and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.
17Jesus spoke up, “There were ten who were healed; where are the other nine?
18Why is this foreigner the only one who came back to give thanks to God?”
19And Jesus said to him, “Get up and go; your faith has made you well.”
The Coming of the Kingdom
20Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, “The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen.
21No one will say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’; because the Kingdom of God is within you.”
22Then he said to the disciples, “The time will come when you will wish you could see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
23There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, over there!’ or, ‘Look, over here!’ But don't go out looking for it.
24As the lightning flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
25But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.
26As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.
27Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.
28It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
29On the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and killed them all.
30That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31“On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.
32Remember Lot's wife!
33Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.
34On that night, I tell you, there will be two people sleeping in the same bed: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.
35Two women will be grinding meal together: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.”
36[Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.] (Vulgate/DR Patch)
37The disciples asked him, “Where, Lord?” Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.”
Luke 18
The Parable of the Widow and the Judge
1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged.
2“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.
3And there was a widow in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my opponent!’
4For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect people,
5yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don't, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!’”
6And the Lord continued, “Listen to what that corrupt judge said.
7Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them?
8I tell you, he will judge in their favor and do it quickly. But will the Son of Man find faith on earth when he comes?”
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.
10“Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
11The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there.
12I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
13But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
14I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
Jesus Blesses Little Children
15Some people brought their babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. The disciples saw them and scolded them for doing so,
16but Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
17Remember this! Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
The Rich Man
18A Jewish leader asked Jesus, “Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?”
19“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.
20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; respect your father and your mother.’”
21The man replied, “Ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments.”
22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”
23But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.
24Jesus saw that he was sad and said, “How hard it is for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!
25It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”
26The people who heard him asked, “Who, then, can be saved?”
27Jesus answered, “What is humanly impossible is possible for God.”
28Then Peter said, “Look! We have left our homes to follow you.”
29“Yes,” Jesus said to them, “and I assure you that anyone who leaves home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Kingdom of God
30will receive much more in this present age and eternal life in the age to come.”
Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death
31Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, “Listen! We are going to Jerusalem where everything the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will come true.
32He will be handed over to the Gentiles, who will make fun of him, insult him, and spit on him.
33They will whip him and kill him, but three days later he will rise to life.”
34But the disciples did not understand any of these things; the meaning of the words was hidden from them, and they did not know what Jesus was talking about.
Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar
35As Jesus was coming near Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by the road, begging.
36When he heard the crowd passing by, he asked, “What is this?”
37“Jesus of Nazareth is passing by,” they told him.
38He cried out, “Jesus! Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
39The people in front scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly, “Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
40So Jesus stopped and ordered the blind man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him,
41“What do you want me to do for you?” “Sir,” he answered, “I want to see again.”
42Jesus said to him, “Then see! Your faith has made you well.”
43At once he was able to see, and he followed Jesus, giving thanks to God. When the crowd saw it, they all praised God.
Luke 19
Jesus and Zacchaeus
1Jesus went on into Jericho and was passing through.
2There was a chief tax collector there named Zacchaeus, who was rich.
3He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was a little man and could not see Jesus because of the crowd.
4So he ran ahead of the crowd and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way.
5When Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to Zacchaeus, “Hurry down, Zacchaeus, because I must stay in your house today.”
6Zacchaeus hurried down and welcomed him with great joy.
7All the people who saw it started grumbling, “This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!”
8Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Listen, sir! I will give half my belongings to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times as much.”
9Jesus said to him, “Salvation has come to this house today, for this man, also, is a descendant of Abraham.
10The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
The Parable of the Gold Coins
11While the people were listening to this, Jesus continued and told them a parable. He was now almost at Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was just about to appear.
12So he said, “There was once a man of high rank who was going to a country far away to be made king, after which he planned to come back home.
13Before he left, he called his ten servants and gave them each a gold coin and told them, ‘See what you can earn with this while I am gone.’
14Now, his own people hated him, and so they sent messengers after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to be our king.’
15“The man was made king and came back. At once he ordered his servants to appear before him, in order to find out how much they had earned.
16The first one came and said, ‘Sir, I have earned ten gold coins with the one you gave me.’
17‘Well done,’ he said; ‘you are a good servant! Since you were faithful in small matters, I will put you in charge of ten cities.’
18The second servant came and said, ‘Sir, I have earned five gold coins with the one you gave me.’
19To this one he said, ‘You will be in charge of five cities.’
20Another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your gold coin; I kept it hidden in a handkerchief.
21I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what is not yours and reap what you did not plant.’
22He said to him, ‘You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you! You know that I am a hard man, taking what is not mine and reaping what I have not planted.
23Well, then, why didn't you put my money in the bank? Then I would have received it back with interest when I returned.’
24Then he said to those who were standing there, ‘Take the gold coin away from him and give it to the servant who has ten coins.’
25But they said to him, ‘Sir, he already has ten coins!’
26‘I tell you,’ he replied, ‘that to those who have something, even more will be given; but those who have nothing, even the little that they have will be taken away from them.
27Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!’”
The Triumphant Approach to Jerusalem
28After Jesus said this, he went on in front of them toward Jerusalem.
29As he came near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead
30with these instructions: “Go to the village there ahead of you; as you go in, you will find a colt tied up that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
31If someone asks you why you are untying it, tell him that the Master needs it.”
32They went on their way and found everything just as Jesus had told them.
33As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying it?”
34“The Master needs it,” they answered,
35and they took the colt to Jesus. Then they threw their cloaks over the animal and helped Jesus get on.
36As he rode on, people spread their cloaks on the road.
37When he came near Jerusalem, at the place where the road went down the Mount of Olives, the large crowd of his disciples began to thank God and praise him in loud voices for all the great things that they had seen:
38“God bless the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory to God!”
39Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd spoke to Jesus. “Teacher,” they said, “command your disciples to be quiet!”
40Jesus answered, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting.”
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
42saying, “If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
43The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
44They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!”
Jesus Goes to the Temple
45Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out the merchants,
46saying to them, “It is written in the Scriptures that God said, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer.’ But you have turned it into a hideout for thieves!”
47Every day Jesus taught in the Temple. The chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the leaders of the people wanted to kill him,
48but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people kept listening to him, not wanting to miss a single word.
Proverbs
Ch. 26
13Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of Lions?
14Lazy people turn over in bed. They get no farther than a door swinging on its hinges.
15Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.
16A lazy person will think he is smarter than seven men who can give good reasons for their opinions.