- The Holy Gospel of JesusChrist, according to st. Luke
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CHAPTER 12.
1 AND when great multitudes stood about him, so that
they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the
leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be
revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.
3 For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness,
shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in
the chambers, shall be preached on the housetops.
4 And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them
who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him,
who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear
him.
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not
one of them is forgotten before God?
7 Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
8 And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before
men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.
9 But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied
before the angels of God.
10 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of
man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.
11 And when they shall bring you into the synagogues,
and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer,
or what you shall say;
12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour
what you must say.
13 And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak
to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.
14 But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me
judge, or divider, over you?
15 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all
covetousness; for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things
which he possesseth.
16 And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land
of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits.
17 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I
do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my
barns, and will build greater; and into them will I gather all things that are
grown to me, and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much
goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer.
20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they
require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast
provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is
not rich towards God.
22 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to
you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body,
what you shall put on.
23 The life is more than the meat, and the body is more
than the raiment.
24 Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do
they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How
much are you more valuable than they?
25 And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his
stature one cubit?
26 If then ye be not able to do so much as the least
thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not,
neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was
clothed like one of these.
28 Now if God clothe in this manner the grass that is
to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more you, O
ye of little faith?
29 And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you
shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world
seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.
31 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your
Father to give you a kingdom.
33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to
yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not:
where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.
34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.
35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your
hands.
36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their
lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh,
they may open to him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he
cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and
make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them.
38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in
the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 But this know ye, that if the householder did know
at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer
his house to be broken open.
40 Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think
not, the Son of man will come.
41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this
parable to us, or likewise to all?
42 And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the
faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them
their measure of wheat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall
come, he shall find so doing.
44 Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that
he possesseth.
45 But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord
is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants,
and to eat and to drink and be drunk:
46 The lord of that servant will come in the day that
he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and
shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
47 And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and
prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten
with many stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes,
shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him
much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will
demand the more.
49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will
I, but that it be kindled?
50 And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized:
and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?
51 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I
tell you, no; but separation.
52 For there shall be from henceforth five in one house
divided: three against two, and two against three.
53 The father shall be divided against the son,
and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter
against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the
daughter in law against her mother in law.
54 And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a
cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it
happeneth:
55 And when ye see the south wind blow, you say:
There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.
56 You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of
the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?
57 And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that
which is just?
58 And when thou goest with thy adversary to the
prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest
perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter,
and the exacter cast thee into prison.
59 I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until
thou pay the very last mite.
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