Bible Reading for April 9 - 11
World English Bible
Apr.
9
Numbers
9, 10
Num
9:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land of
Egypt, saying,
Num
9:2 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in
its appointed season.
Num
9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep
it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes, and
according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
Num
9:4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the
Passover.
Num
9:5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day
of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to
all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Num
9:6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead
body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day,
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
Num
9:7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead
body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the
offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of
Israel?"
Num
9:8 Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh
will command concerning you."
Num
9:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
9:10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of
your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a
journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
Num
9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they
shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs.
Num
9:12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone
of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep
it.
Num
9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to
keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed
season, that man shall bear his sin.
Num
9:14 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the
Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and
according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one
statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the
land.' "
Num
9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered
the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was
over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
Num
9:16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance
of fire by night.
Num
9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after
that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the
cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
Num
9:18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled,
and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud
remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
Num
9:19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the
children of Israel kept Yahweh's command, and didn't travel.
Num
9:20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then
according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and
according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
Num
9:21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when
the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and
by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
Num
9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud
stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel
remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they
traveled.
Num
9:23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the
commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh's command, at
the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
Num
10:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
10:2 "Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of
beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation,
and for the journeying of the camps.
Num
10:3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather
themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Num
10:4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the
thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
Num
10:5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side
shall go forward.
Num
10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on
the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their
journeys.
Num
10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall
blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
Num
10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This
shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
Num
10:9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who
oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then
you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved
from your enemies.
Num
10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set
feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your
God. I am Yahweh your God."
Num
10:11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle of the testimony.
Num
10:12 The children of Israel went forward according to their
journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the
wilderness of Paran.
Num
10:13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh
by Moses.
Num
10:14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went
forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was
over his army.
Num
10:15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Issachar.
Num
10:16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Zebulun.
Num
10:17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the
sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
Num
10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to
their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.
Num
10:19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Simeon.
Num
10:20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of
the children of Gad.
Num
10:21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others
set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
Num
10:22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was
over his army.
Num
10:23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of
the children of Manasseh.
Num
10:24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of
the children of Benjamin.
Num
10:25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the
rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies.
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
Num
10:26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Asher.
Num
10:27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali.
Num
10:28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to
their armies; and they went forward.
Num
10:29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses'
father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh
said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you
well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."
Num
10:30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my
own land, and to my relatives."
Num
10:31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
Num
10:32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that
whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."
Num
10:33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey.
The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days'
journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
Num
10:34 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set
forward from the camp.
Num
10:35 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise
up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you
flee before you!"
Num
10:36 When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to the ten
thousands of the thousands of Israel."
Apr.
10
Numbers
11, 12
Num
11:1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh
heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them,
and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
Num
11:2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the
fire abated.
Num
11:3 The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh's
fire burnt among them.
Num
11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give
us flesh to eat?
Num
11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlic;
Num
11:6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all
except this manna to look at."
Num
11:7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the
appearance of bdellium.
Num
11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or
beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its
taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
Num
11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on
it.
Num
11:10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was
kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
Num
11:11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your
servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you
lay the burden of all this people on me?
Num
11:12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth,
that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse
carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their
fathers?'
Num
11:13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they
weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'
Num
11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too
heavy for me.
Num
11:15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have
found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
Num
11:16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the
elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they
may stand there with you.
Num
11:17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the
Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself
alone.
Num
11:18 Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and
you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying,
"Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in
Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.
Num
11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days,
Num
11:20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it
is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is
among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come
out of Egypt?" ' "
Num
11:21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh,
that they may eat a whole month.'
Num
11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be
sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, to be sufficient for them?"
Num
11:23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now
you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
Num
11:24 Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and
he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
around the Tent.
Num
11:25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it
happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but
they did so no more.
Num
11:26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad,
and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and
they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the
Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
Num
11:27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and
Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
Num
11:28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen
men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"
Num
11:29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish
that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his
Spirit on them!"
Num
11:30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Num
11:31 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea,
and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side,
and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the earth.
Num
11:32 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all
the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered
ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the
camp.
Num
11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was
chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and
Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
Num
11:34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because
there they buried the people who lusted.
Num
11:35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they stayed at Hazeroth.
Num
12:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
Num
12:2 They said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses?
Hasn't he spoken also with us?" And Yahweh heard it.
Num
12:3 Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were
on the surface of the earth.
Num
12:4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, "You
three come out to the Tent of Meeting!" The three of them came
out.
Num
12:5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of
the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
Num
12:6 He said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among
you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak
with him in a dream.
Num
12:7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
Num
12:8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in
riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
Num
12:9 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
Num
12:10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was
leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she
was leprous.
Num
12:11 Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count
this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we
have sinned.
Num
12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
Num
12:13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg
you!"
Num
12:14 Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her
face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside
of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in
again."
Num
12:15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the
people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
Num
12:16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in
the wilderness of Paran.
Apr.
11
Numbers
13, 14
Num
13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
13:2 "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which
I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers,
you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."
Num
13:3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children
of Israel.
Num
13:4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son
of Zaccur.
Num
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
Num
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Num
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Num
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
Num
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Num
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
Num
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely,
of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Num
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Num
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Num
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Num
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Num
13:16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the
land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
Num
13:17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to
them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
Num
13:18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell
therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or
many;
Num
13:19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or
bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps,
or in strongholds;
Num
13:20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there
is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit
of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
Num
13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of
Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
Num
13:22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron
was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Num
13:23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff
between two; they brought
also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Num
13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the
cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
Num
13:25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty
days.
Num
13:26 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran,
to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the
congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Num
13:27 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent
us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
Num
13:28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the
cities are fortified, and
very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Num
13:29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and
the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the
Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
Num
13:30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up
at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Num
13:31 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up
against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Num
13:32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had
spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which
we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants;
and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
Num
13:33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the
Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we
were in their sight.
Num
14:1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the
people wept that night.
Num
14:2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had
died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this
wilderness!
Num
14:3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better
for us to return into Egypt?
Num
14:4 They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us
return into Egypt.
Num
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Num
14:6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were
of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
Num
14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is
an exceeding good land.
Num
14:8 If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land,
and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Num
14:9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the
land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over
them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
Num
14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The
glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children
of Israel.
Num
14:11 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me?
and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I
have worked among them?
Num
14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
Num
14:13 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you
brought up this people in your might from among them;
Num
14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They
have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you
Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and
you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of
fire by night.
Num
14:15 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations
which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Num
14:16 Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land
which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the
wilderness.
Num
14:17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as
you have spoken, saying,
Num
14:18 Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear
the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third
and on the fourth generation.
Num
14:19 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the
greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven
this people, from Egypt even until now.
Num
14:20 Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
Num
14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of Yahweh;
Num
14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs,
which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me
these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
Num
14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their
fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
Num
14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which
he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Num
14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley:
tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Num
14:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Num
14:27 How long shall I bear
with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Num
14:28 Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken
in my ears, so will I do to you:
Num
14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who
were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
Num
14:30 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I
swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num
14:31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have
rejected.
Num
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this
wilderness.
Num
14:33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty
years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be
consumed in the wilderness.
Num
14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and you will know my alienation.
Num
14:35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil
congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Num
14:36 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned,
and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up
an evil report against the land,
Num
14:37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land,
died by the plague before Yahweh.
Num
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
Num
14:39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.
Num
14:40 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top
of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the
place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.
Num
14:41 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh,
seeing it shall not prosper?
Num
14:42 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be
struck down before your enemies.
Num
14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and
you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from
following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.
Num
14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't
depart out of the camp.
Num
14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in
that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
Apr.
9
Luke 6
Luk 6:1
Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was
going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of
grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
Luk 6:2
But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that
which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"
Luk 6:3
Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did
when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;
Luk 6:4
how he entered into the house of God, 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 priests alone?"
Luk 6:5
He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."
Luk 6:6
It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the
synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was
withered.
Luk 6:7
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would
heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
Luk 6:8
But 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.
Luk 6:9
Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it
lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or
to kill?"
Luk
6:10 He 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.
Luk
6:11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another
about what they might do to Jesus.
Luk
6:12 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to
pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Luk
6:13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he
chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Luk
6:14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James;
John; Philip; Bartholomew;
Luk
6:15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was
called the Zealot;
Luk
6:16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a
traitor.
Luk
6:17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a
crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all
Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to
hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
Luk
6:18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they
were being healed.
Luk
6:19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from
him and healed them all.
Luk
6:20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed
are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.
Luk
6:21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed
are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Luk
6:22 Blessed 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.
Luk
6:23 Rejoice 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.
Luk
6:24 "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your
consolation.
Luk
6:25 Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe
to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Luk
6:26 Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same
thing to the false prophets.
Luk
6:27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to
those who hate you,
Luk
6:28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luk
6:29 To 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.
Luk
6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away
your goods to give them back again.
Luk
6:31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to
them.
Luk
6:32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For
even sinners love those who love them.
Luk
6:33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that
to you? For even sinners do the same.
Luk
6:34 If 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.
Luk
6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing
back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the
Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Luk
6:36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
Luk
6:37 Don'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.
Luk
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."
Luk
6:39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the
blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
Luk
6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is
fully trained will be like his teacher.
Luk
6:41 Why 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?
Luk
6:42 Or 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.
Luk
6:43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor
again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.
Luk
6:44 For 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.
Luk
6:45 The 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.
Luk
6:46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things
which I say?
Luk
6:47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I
will show you who he is like.
Luk
6:48 He 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.
Luk
6:49 But 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."
Apr.
10, 11
Luke 7
Luk 7:1
After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he
entered into Capernaum.
Luk 7:2
A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at
the point of death.
Luk 7:3
When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking
him to come and save his servant.
Luk 7:4
When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He
is worthy for you to do this for him,
Luk 7:5
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
Luk 7:6
Jesus 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.
Luk 7:7
Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say
the word, and my servant will be healed.
Luk 7:8
For 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."
Luk 7:9
When Jesus 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 Israel."
Luk
7:10 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the
servant who had been sick was well.
Luk
7:11 It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called
Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with
him.
Luk
7:12 Now 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.
Luk
7:13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to
her, "Don't cry."
Luk
7:14 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood
still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
Luk
7:15 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to
his mother.
Luk
7:16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A
great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited
his people!"
Luk
7:17 This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and
in all the surrounding region.
Luk
7:18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.
Luk
7:19 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to
Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look
for another?"
Luk
7:20 When the men had come to him, they said, "John the
Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should
we look for another?' "
Luk
7:21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil
spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
Luk
7:22 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John 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.
Luk
7:23 Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
Luk
7:24 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the
multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness
to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
Luk
7:25 But 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.
Luk
7:26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and
much more than a prophet.
Luk
7:27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger
before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'
Luk
7:28 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there
is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least
in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."
Luk
7:29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they
declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
Luk
7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God,
not being baptized by him themselves.
Luk
7:31 "To what then will I liken the people of this generation?
What are they like?
Luk
7:32 They 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.'
Luk
7:33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking
wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
Luk
7:34 The 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!'
Luk
7:35 Wisdom is justified by all her children."
Luk
7:36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered
into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
Luk
7:37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew
that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an
alabaster jar of ointment.
Luk
7:38 Standing 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.
Luk
7:39 Now when the Pharisee 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."
Luk
7:40 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
He said, "Teacher, say on."
Luk
7:41 "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five
hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luk
7:42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them
therefore will love him most?"
Luk
7:43 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the
most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
Luk
7:44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "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.
Luk
7:45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not
ceased to kiss my feet.
Luk
7:46 You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my
feet with ointment.
Luk
7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven,
for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves
little."
Luk
7:48 He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
Luk
7:49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves,
"Who is this who even forgives sins?"
Luk
7:50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in
peace."
