The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 12
{12:1} Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered
together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to
tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. {12:2} But there is nothing covered up,
that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known. {12:3}
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the
light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be
proclaimed on the housetops.
{12:4} "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do. {12:5} But I
will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed,
has power to cast into [1>]Gehinnom.[<1] Yes, I tell you, fear him.
{12:6} "Aren't five sparrows sold for two [2>]assaria coins[<2]? Not
one of them is forgotten by God. {12:7} But the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more
value than many sparrows.
{12:8} "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will
the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; {12:9} but he
who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of
the angels of God. {12:10} Everyone who speaks a word against the Son
of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy
Spirit will not be forgiven. {12:11} When they bring you before the
synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or
what you will answer, or what you will say; {12:12} for the Holy
Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."
{12:13} One of the multitude said to him, "Rabbi, tell my brother to
divide the inheritance with me."
{12:14} But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an
arbitrator over you?" {12:15} He said to them, "Beware! Keep
yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the
abundance of the things which he possesses."
{12:16} He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain
rich man brought forth abundantly. {12:17} He reasoned within himself,
saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
{12:18} He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns,
and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my
goods. {12:19} I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
{12:20} "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is
required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they
be?' {12:21} So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not
rich toward God."
{12:22} He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be
anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what
you will wear. {12:23} Life is more than food, and the body is more
than clothing. {12:24} Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't
reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much
more valuable are you than birds! {12:25} Which of you by being
anxious can add a cubit to his height? {12:26} If then you aren't able
to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
{12:27} Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. {12:28} But if this is how God clothes the
grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the
oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? {12:29}
Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be
anxious. {12:30} For the nations of the world seek after all of these
things, but your Father knows that you need these things. {12:31} But
seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. {12:32}
Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the Kingdom. {12:33} Sell that which you have, and give
gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a
treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches,
neither moth destroys. {12:34} For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
{12:35} "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. {12:36}
Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage
feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to
him. {12:37} Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find
watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress
himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. {12:38}
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and
finds them so. {12:39} But know this, that if the master of the house
had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and not allowed his house to be broken into. {12:40} Therefore be
ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't
expect him."
{12:41} Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to
us, or to everybody?"
{12:42} The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion
of food at the right times? {12:43} Blessed is that servant whom his
lord will find doing so when he comes. {12:44} Truly I tell you, that
he will set him over all that he has. {12:45} But if that servant says
in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the
menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be
drunken, {12:46} then the lord of that servant will come in a day when
he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will
cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. {12:47}
That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do
what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, {12:48} but he who
didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few
stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and
to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
{12:49} "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already
kindled. {12:50} But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how
distressed I am until it is accomplished! {12:51} Do you think that I
have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather
division. {12:52} For from now on, there will be five in one house
divided, three against two, and two against three. {12:53} [3>]They
will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother
against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law
against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law."[<3]
{12:54} He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising
from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it
happens. {12:55} When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a
scorching heat,' and it happens. {12:56} You hypocrites! You know how
to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it
that you don't interpret this time? {12:57} Why don't you judge for
yourselves what is right? {12:58} For when you are going with your
adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be
released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the
judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into
prison. {12:59} I tell you, you will by no means get out of there,
until you have paid the very last [4>]penny.[<4]"
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:5} or, Hell
[2] {12:6} An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's
wages for an agricultural laborer.
[3] {12:53} Micah 7:6
[4] {12:59} literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish
coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the
copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural
worker's daily wages.
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