LUKE CHAPTER 13

Luke 13:1 And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;
13:2 and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?
13:3 No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.
13:4 `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?
13:5 No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'
13:6 And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;
13:7 and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?
13:8 `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
13:9 and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,
13:11 and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,
13:12 and Jesus having seen her, did call [her] near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'
13:13 and he laid on her [his] hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.
13:14 And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth [us] to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'
13:15 Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water [it]?
13:16 and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?'
13:17 And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.
13:18 And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
13:19 It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'
Luke 13:20 And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?
13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'
13:22 And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;
13:23 and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them,
13:24 `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
13:25 from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,
13:26 then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;
13:27 and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.
13:28 `There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;
13:29 and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,
Luke 13:30 and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'
13:31 On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;'
13:32 and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am being perfected;
13:33 but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the [day] following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.
13:34 `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.
13:35 `Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you -- ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord.'

LUKE CHAPTER 14

Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,
14:2 and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
14:3 and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'
14:4 and they were silent, and having taken hold of [him], he healed him, and let [him] go;
14:5 and answering them he said, `Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the sabbath-day?'
14:6 and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.
14:7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
14:8 `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,
14:9 and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.
Luke 14:10 `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;
14:11 because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
14:12 And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;
14:13 but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,
14:14 and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'
14:15 And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy [is] he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'
14:16 and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many,
14:17 and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.
14:18 `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.
14:19 `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:
Luke 14:20 and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.
14:21 `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.
14:22 `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room.
14:23 `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;
14:24 for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'
14:25 And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,
14:26 `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
14:27 and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.
14:28 `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing?
14:29 lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,
Luke 14:30 saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
14:31 `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?
14:32 and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.
14:33 `So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.
14:34 `The salt [is] good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
14:35 neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

LUKE CHAPTER 15

Luke 15:1 And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,
15:2 and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'
15:3 And he spake unto them this simile, saying,
15:4 `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?
15:5 and having found, he doth lay [it] on his shoulders rejoicing,
15:6 and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.
15:7 `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
15:8 `Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?
15:9 and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.
Luke 15:10 `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'
15:11 And he said, `A certain man had two sons,
15:12 and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.
15:13 `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;
15:14 and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;
15:15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,
15:16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.
15:17 `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!
15:18 having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,
15:19 and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.
Luke 15:20 `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;
15:21 and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.
15:22 `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;
15:23 and having brought the fatted calf, kill [it], and having eaten, we may be merry,
15:24 because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.
15:25 `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,
15:26 and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,
15:27 and he said to him -- Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.
15:28 `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;
15:29 and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;
Luke 15:30 but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.
15:31 `And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;
15:32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

LUKE CHAPTER 16

Luke 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;
16:2 and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.
16:3 `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --
16:4 I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.
16:5 `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?
16:6 and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.
16:7 `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.
16:8 `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.
16:9 and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.
Luke 16:10 `He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;
16:11 if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?
16:12 and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?
16:13 `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'
16:14 And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
16:15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;
16:16 the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;
16:17 and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.
16:18 `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.
16:19 `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
Luke 16:20 and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,
16:21 and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.
16:22 `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;
16:23 and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,
16:24 and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.
16:25 `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
16:26 and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.
16:27 `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,
16:28 for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.
16:29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;
Luke 16:30 and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.
16:31 And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

LUKE CHAPTER 17

Luke 17:1 And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;
17:2 it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.
17:3 `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,
17:4 and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'
17:5 And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'
17:6 and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.
17:7 `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?
17:8 but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?
17:9 Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.
Luke 17:10 `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'
17:11 And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,
17:12 and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,
17:13 and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'
17:14 and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,
17:15 and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,
17:16 and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.
17:17 And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?
17:18 There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'
17:19 and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'
Luke 17:20 And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;
17:21 nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'
17:22 And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];
17:23 and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;
17:24 for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;
17:25 and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
17:26 `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;
17:27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
17:28 in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
17:29 and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.
Luke 17:30 `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
17:31 in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;
17:32 remember the wife of Lot.
17:33 Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
17:34 `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
17:35 two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
17:36 two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'
17:37 And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.'

LUKE CHAPTER 18

Luke 18:1 And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth [us] always to pray, and not to faint,
18:2 saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --
18:3 and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,
18:4 and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,
18:5 yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'
18:6 And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:
18:7 and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?
18:8 I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'
18:9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
Luke 18:10 `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;
18:11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
18:13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
18:14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
18:15 And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,
18:16 and Jesus having called them near, said, `Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;
18:17 verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'
18:18 And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, `Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?'
18:19 And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one [is] good, except One -- God;
Luke 18:20 the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'
18:21 And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'
18:22 and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'
18:23 and he, having heard these things, became very sorrowful, for he was exceeding rich.
18:24 And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, `How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!
18:25 for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'
18:26 And those who heard, said, `And who is able to be saved?'
18:27 and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'
18:28 And Peter said, `Lo, we left all, and did follow thee;'
18:29 and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,
Luke 18:30 who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'
18:31 And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,
18:32 for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,
18:33 and having scourged they shall put him to death, and on the third day he shall rise again.'
18:34 And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.
18:35 And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,
18:36 and having heard a multitude going by, he was inquiring what this may be,
18:37 and they brought him word that Jesus the Nazarene doth pass by,
18:38 and he cried out, saying, `Jesus, Son of David, deal kindly with me;'
18:39 and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.'
Luke 18:40 And Jesus having stood, commanded him to be brought unto him, and he having come nigh, he questioned him,
18:41 saying, `What wilt thou I shall do to thee?' and he said, `Sir, that I may receive sight.'
18:42 And Jesus said to him, `Receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee;'
18:43 and presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.

LUKE CHAPTER 19

Luke 19:1 And having entered, he was passing through Jericho,
19:2 and lo, a man, by name called Zaccheus, and he was a chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich,
19:3 and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,
19:4 and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that [way] he was about to pass by.
19:5 And as Jesus came up to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said unto him, `Zaccheus, having hastened, come down, for to-day in thy house it behoveth me to remain;'
19:6 and he having hastened did come down, and did receive him rejoicing;
19:7 and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying -- `With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
19:8 And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'
19:9 And Jesus said unto him -- `To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;
Luke 19:10 for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'
19:11 And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile, because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the reign of God is about presently to be made manifest.
19:12 He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,
19:13 and having called ten servants of his own, he gave to them ten pounds, and said unto them, Do business -- till I come;
19:14 and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
19:15 `And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.
19:16 `And the first came near, saying, Sir, thy pound did gain ten pounds;
19:17 and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.
19:18 `And the second came, saying, Sir, thy pound made five pounds;
19:19 and he said also to this one, And thou, become thou over five cities.
Luke 19:20 `And another came, saying, Sir, lo, thy pound, that I had lying away in a napkin;
19:21 for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.
19:22 `And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!
19:23 and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?
19:24 `And to those standing by he said, Take from him the pound, and give to him having the ten pounds --
19:25 (and they said to him, Sir, he hath ten pounds) --
19:26 for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,
19:27 but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'
19:28 And having said these things, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.
19:29 And it came to pass, as he came nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, unto the mount called of the Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
Luke 19:30 having said, Go away to the village over-against, in which, entering into, ye shall find a colt bound, on which no one of men did ever sit, having loosed it, bring [it];
19:31 and if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose [it]? thus ye shall say to him -- The Lord hath need of it.'
19:32 And those sent, having gone away, found according as he said to them,
19:33 and while they are loosing the colt, its owners said unto them, `Why loose ye the colt?'
19:34 and they said, `The Lord hath need of it;'
19:35 and they brought it unto Jesus, and having cast their garments upon the colt, they did set Jesus upon it.
19:36 And as he is going, they were spreading their garments in the way,
19:37 and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
19:38 saying, `blessed [is] he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.'
19:39 And certain of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, `Teacher, rebuke thy disciples;'
Luke 19:40 and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'
19:41 And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,
19:42 saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.
19:43 `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,
19:44 and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'
19:45 And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying,
19:46 saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
19:47 And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --
19:48 and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

LUKE CHAPTER 20

Luke 20:1 And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon [him],
20:2 and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'
20:3 And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:
20:4 the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'
20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
20:6 and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
20:7 And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],
20:8 and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'
20:9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,
Luke 20:10 and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.
20:11 `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;
20:12 and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.
20:13 `And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;
20:14 and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;
20:15 and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed [him]; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?
20:16 He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'
20:17 and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?
20:18 every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'
20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
Luke 20:20 And, having watched [him], they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,
20:21 and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;
20:22 Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?'
20:23 And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?
20:24 shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'
20:25 and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'
20:26 and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.
20:27 And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,
20:28 saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.
20:29 `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,
Luke 20:30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless,
20:31 and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;
20:32 and last of all died also the woman:
20:33 in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'
20:34 And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,
20:35 but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;
20:36 for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.
20:37 `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
20:38 and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'
20:39 And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'
Luke 20:40 and no more durst they question him anything.
20:41 And he said unto them, `How do they say the Christ to be son of David,
20:42 and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
20:43 till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool;
20:44 David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'
20:45 And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,
20:46 `Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,
20:47 who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

LUKE CHAPTER 21

Luke 21:1 And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury -- rich men,
21:2 and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites,
21:3 and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all;
21:4 for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'
21:5 And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,
21:6 `These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'
21:7 And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?'
21:8 And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;
21:9 and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'
Luke 21:10 Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,
21:11 great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;
21:12 and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;
21:13 and it shall become to you for a testimony.
21:14 `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,
21:15 for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.
21:16 `And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;
21:17 and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --
21:18 and a hair out of your head shall not perish;
21:19 in your patience possess ye your souls.
Luke 21:20 `And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;
21:21 then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;
21:22 because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.
21:23 `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
21:24 and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.
21:25 `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;
21:26 men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
21:27 `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;
21:28 and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'
21:29 And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,
Luke 21:30 when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;
21:31 so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;
21:32 verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;
21:33 the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.
21:34 `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
21:35 for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,
21:36 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
21:37 And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;
21:38 and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

LUKE CHAPTER 22

Luke 22:1 And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,
22:2 and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.
22:3 And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,
22:4 and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,
22:5 and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,
22:6 and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.
22:7 And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,
22:8 and he sent Peter and John, saying, `Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'
22:9 and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'
Luke 22:10 And he said to them, `Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,
22:11 and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?
22:12 and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;'
22:13 and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.
22:14 And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him,
22:15 and he said unto them, `With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,
22:16 for I say to you, that no more may I eat of it till it may be fulfilled in the reign of God.'
22:17 And having taken a cup, having given thanks, he said, `Take this and divide to yourselves,
22:18 for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'
22:19 And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.'
Luke 22:20 In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.
22:21 `But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up [is] with me on the table,
22:22 and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but wo to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'
22:23 And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.
22:24 And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.
22:25 And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;
22:26 but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
22:27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
22:28 `And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,
22:29 and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
Luke 22:30 that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
22:31 And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
22:32 and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
22:33 And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'
22:34 and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'
22:35 And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, `Nothing.'
22:36 Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take [it] up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,
22:37 for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'
22:38 And they said, `Sir, lo, here [are] two swords;' and he said to them, `It is sufficient.'
22:39 And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,
Luke 22:40 and having come to the place, he said to them, `Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'
22:41 And he was withdrawn from them, as it were a stone's cast, and having fallen on the knees he was praying,
22:42 saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me --; but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --
22:43 And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;
22:44 and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.
22:45 And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,
22:46 and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'
22:47 And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,
22:48 and Jesus said to him, `Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'
22:49 And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, `Sir, shall we smite with a sword?'
Luke 22:50 And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,
22:51 and Jesus answering said, `Suffer ye thus far,' and having touched his ear, he healed him.
22:52 And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- `As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?
22:53 while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'
22:54 And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,
22:55 and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them,
22:56 and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!'
22:57 and he disowned him, saying, `Woman, I have not known him.'
22:58 And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.'
22:59 And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;'
Luke 22:60 and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.
22:61 And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him -- `Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'
22:62 and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.
22:63 And the men who were holding Jesus were mocking him, beating [him];
22:64 and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, `Prophesy who he is who smote thee?'
22:65 and many other things, speaking evilly, they spake in regard to him.
22:66 And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
22:67 saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;
22:68 and if I also question [you], ye will not answer me or send me away;
22:69 henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'
Luke 22:70 And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, `Ye say [it], because I am;'
22:71 and they said, `What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear [it] from his mouth.'

LUKE CHAPTER 23

Luke 23:1 And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,
23:2 and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'
23:3 And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].'
23:4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
23:5 and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'
23:6 And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,
23:7 and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.
23:8 And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,
23:9 and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.
Luke 23:10 And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,
23:11 and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,
23:12 and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.
23:13 And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
23:14 said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;
23:15 no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
23:16 having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'
23:17 for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
23:18 and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'
23:19 who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
Luke 23:20 Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,
23:21 but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'
23:22 And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].'
23:23 And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
23:24 and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
23:25 and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
23:26 And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus.
23:27 And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
23:28 and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;
23:29 for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
Luke 23:30 then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --
23:31 for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
23:32 And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;
23:33 and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
23:34 And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
23:35 And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
23:36 And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,
23:37 and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'
23:38 And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'
23:39 And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'
Luke 23:40 And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?
23:41 and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
23:42 and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
23:43 and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
23:44 And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,
23:45 and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,
23:46 and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.
23:47 And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'
23:48 and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;
23:49 and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.
Luke 23:50 And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,
23:51 -- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,
23:52 he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,
23:53 and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.
23:54 And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,
23:55 and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,
23:56 and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.

LUKE CHAPTER 24

Luke 24:1 And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them,
24:2 and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,
24:3 and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
24:4 And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,
24:5 and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?
24:6 he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,
24:7 saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'
24:8 And they remembered his sayings,
24:9 and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.
Luke 24:10 And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,
24:11 and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.
24:12 And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.
24:13 And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,
24:14 and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.
24:15 And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,
24:16 and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,
24:17 and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'
24:18 And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'
24:19 And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,
Luke 24:20 how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;
24:21 and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.
24:22 `And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,
24:23 and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,
24:24 and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'
24:25 And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!
24:26 Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'
24:27 and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.
24:28 And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,
24:29 and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.
Luke 24:30 And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,
24:31 and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.
24:32 And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
24:33 And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,
24:34 saying -- `The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'
24:35 and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,
24:36 and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace -- to you;'
24:37 and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.
24:38 And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?
24:39 see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'
Luke 24:40 And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,
24:41 and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'
24:42 and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,
24:43 and having taken, he did eat before them,
24:44 and he said to them, `These [are] the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'
24:45 Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,
24:46 and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,
24:47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
24:48 and ye -- ye are witnesses of these things.
24:49 `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'
Luke 24:50 And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,
24:51 and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;
24:52 and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,
24:53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Luke 1-12 - John 1-11