people would not receive him, because his face was turned in the 54 direction of Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, wilt thou have us bid fire come down from the sky and 55, 56 consume them?" But he turned and rebuked them. And they journeyed to another village. 57 And as they journeyed on the road, a man said to him, "I will follow 58 thee wherever thou goest.' Then said Jesus to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have shelters: 59 He said to another, "Follow me." 60 bury my father." But he said to him, 66 Let the dead bury their own dead : "Let me go first and Go thou and publish abroad the reign of God." 61 Also another said, "I will follow thee, Lord; but first let me take leave 62 of those at home." But Jesus said to him, "No man who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fit for the reign of God." Now after this the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and despatched them two and two in front of him into every city and place 2 where he intended to come himself. And he said to them, "The harvest is ample, but the labourers are few: 10 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Entreat then the owner of the harvest to thrust out labourers into his harvest. Go on your way: Lo, I despatch you like lambs amid wolves. Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals, And salute no one on the road. Whatever household you enter first, Say, 'Peace be to this household!' Then, if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: Stay in the same house Eating and drinking what they provide, Shift not from house to house. Also, whatever city you enter, and the people receive you, And heal the infirm in it, telling them, 'The reign of God is But whatever city you shall enter and the people receive you not, 'Even the dust from your city which clings to our feet, we wipe But know this; the reign of God is near.' I tell you, on that Day Sodom shall find it more bearable than that city. Woe to thee, Khorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! For had the miracles wrought in you been wrought in Tyre and They had repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. And thou, Kapharnahum, shalt thou be raised to the sky? thou shalt be thrust down to Hades! 1 Omitting [[xi]]. 2 Adding vé (as in ver. 17). 16 17 He who listens to you listens to me, And he who rejects you rejects me: And he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." Now the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the 18 daemons are subject to us in thy name!" And he said to them, "I saw Satan like lightning fall from heaven. 19 20 Lo, I have given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions, and over all the enemy's power, And nothing shall injure you at all. Yet joy not over this, that the spirits are subject to you, 22 22 That thou didst conceal these things from wise and clever men, revealing them to babes. Even so, Father!— That thus it pleased thee. All things have been delivered to me by my Father, And no one knows who the Son is, but the Father, And who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal him." 23 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, 24 25 "Happy the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, yet they saw not; And to hear what you hear, yet they heard not." And behold, a lawyer stood up to make trial of him. "Teacher," 26 said he, "What shall I do to inherit life eternal?" He said to him, 27"What is written in the law? How readest thou?" He replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, with thy whole strength, with thy whole mind; also thy neighbour as thyself." 28 And he said to him, "Thou hast answered correctly. Do this and thou 29 shalt live." But as he wished to put himself in the right, he said to 30 Jesus, "And who is my neighbour?" Jesus said in reply: "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell in with robbers, who actually stripped him, and after showering stripes on him 31 went off, leaving him half-dead. Now it so happened that a priest was going down by that road; but on seeing him he went past, upon the 32 opposite side. Similarly too a Levite, on coming up to the spot and seeing 33 him, went past upon the opposite side. But a Samaritan traveller came 34 to where he was, and on seeing him was moved with compassion; and going to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine. And mounting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn and took 35 care of him. And on the following day he took out two shillings and gave them to the inn-keeper, saying, "Take care of him; and any extra 36 expense I will refund thee on my way back.' Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved himself a neighbour to him who fell among the 37 robbers?" He said, "The man who dealt mercifully with him." Jesus said to him, "Go thou also, do likewise." 38 Now in the course of their journey he entered a village; and a woman 39 named Martha welcomed him to her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who for her part seated herself at the Lord's feet and 40 listened to his talk. But Martha was distracted with serving busily, and she came up and said, "Lord, carest thou not that my sister has left 41 me to serve all by myself? Come, tell her to help me." The Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and restless 42 about many things, yet few things are needed-few or only one.1 Mary has chosen the good portion, and it shall not be taken away from her." And it came to pass while he was at a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as 2 John also taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, thy name be hallowed, 11 1 34 5 Thy reign come! Our bread for the morrow give us day by day. And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive every debtor of ours. And lead us not into temptation." And he said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey, and I have 7 nothing to set before him';-and he inside shall answer and say, 'Disturb me not: the door is shut by this time, and my children are in 8 bed with me. I cannot get up and give thee anything'? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is a friend of his, yet on account of his friend's persistence he will rise and give him 9 all that he requires. And I tell you, 14 Ask and it shall be given you, Seek and you shall find, Knock and it shall be opened to you : For everyone who asks receives, And he who seeks finds, And to him who knocks it shall be opened. Now what father of you, if his son asks a fish, will hand him instead of a fish, a serpent? Or if an egg, will hand him a scorpion? If you then, niggardly as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, How much more shall your Father give from heaven the holy Spirit to those who ask him?" And he was casting out a dumb daemon; and it came to pass, when the daemon had gone out, that the dumb man spoke. And the crowds 15 marvelled, but some of them said, "It is with the help of Beelzebub the 16 ruler of the daemons, that he is casting out the daemons"; while others17 to make trial of him-required from him a sign from the sky. And aware of what they thought, he said to them: 18 19 20 "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, And house falls upon house. Also, if Satan is divided against himself, How shall his realm stand? (Because you say, it is with the help of Beelzebub that I am casting out the daemons.) If I am casting out the dæmons with the help of Beelzebub, with whose help do your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be your judges. But if I am casting out the dæmons with the finger of God, 1 Reading ὀλίγων δέ ἐστιν χρεία ἢ ἑνός. 2 Omitting άρτον, μὴ λίθον ἐπιδώσει αὐτῷ ; ἢ καί. 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 27 When the mighty man, clad in full armour, is guarding his own homestead, His goods are undisturbed: But when a mightier man attacks him and conquers him, He seizes his full armour on which he relied, and divides up his spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me; And whoever gathers not with me, is scattering. When the unclean spirit leaves a man, It passes through waterless places in search of rest, And unable to find any, it says, 'I will turn back to my house that I left'; And on coming finds it swept clean and in order: Then it goes and fetches other spirits more hurtful than itself, whole seven of them, And entering there they dwell-and that man's last state becomes worse than his first." Now it came to pass, while he was saying this, that a woman raised her voice out of the crowd and said to him, "Happy the womb that 28 bore thee! and the breasts that thou didst suck!" And he said, "Happy, 29 rather, those who hear the word of God and observe it!" 34 35 36 37 as the crowds thronged together, he began to say: "This generation is an evil generation-it requires a sign, For as Jonah proved a sign to the Ninevites, So too shall the Son of man be to this generation. Now The queen of the South shall rise up at the judgment along with For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of And lo, a greater than Solomon is here! The men of Nineveh shall stand up at the judgment along with this generation and condemn it; For they repented at the preaching of Jonah And lo, a greater than Jonah is here! No man, after setting light to a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under the bushel, But on the lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. The lamp of the body is thine eye. When thine eye is sound, then thy whole body is lit up: But so soon as it is diseased, then thy whole body is darkened. See to it then, lest the light that is in thee be not darkness. If then thy whole body be lit up, with no part darkened, it shall be wholly lit up, As when the lamp lights thee with its gleam." Now after he had spoken, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so 38 he went in and lay down. And when the Pharisee saw it, he was 39 astonished that he had not first washed before dinner. But the Lord said 40 to him, "Here now! you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, But your inside is filled with plunder and malice. Senseless men! did not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 42 43 44 [Only, give the contents as alms-and lo, all things are clean But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, And disregard justice and the love of God: Now these you ought to have practised-without neglecting the Woe to you Pharisees! for you like the chief seat in the synagogues Woe to you! for you are like unsuspected tombs, And people who walk over them are unaware of it." 45 One of the lawyers says to him in reply, "Teacher, in saying this thou 46 art insulting even us!" He said: 47 48 49 50 50 51 52 "Woe even to you lawyers! for you load men with irksome burdens, Yet your fathers killed them. So then to your fathers' deeds you bear witness and consent: While you build their tombs ! Wherefore the Wisdom of God also said, 'I will send to them And some of them shall they kill and persecute That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the From the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zachariah, who Yes, I tell you, from this generation shall it be exacted. Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of know- You have not entered yourselves, and you have hindered those 53 And after he had gone away from here, the scribes and the Pharisees Meanwhile, as the crowd was gathering in its thousands, so that they Nothing is covered up that shall not be disclosed, Or hidden that shall not be known: Since all that you have said in the darkness shall be taught in the And what you have whispered in the inner chambers shall be 4 I tell you, my friends, 5 6 Fear not those who kill the body, And after that can do nothing further. I will let you know whom to fear: Fear him who, after he has killed, Has power to throw into Gehenna Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for twopence? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. |