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Luke Chapter 12 012:001 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. 012:002 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known. 012:003 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light.
What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops. 012:004 "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. 012:005 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him. 012:006 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}?
Not one of them is forgotten by God. 012:007 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. 012:008 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; 012:009 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
012:010 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.
012:011 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; 012:012 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say." 012:013 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 012:014 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" 012:015 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." 012:016 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. 012:017 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 012:018 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.
012:019 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 012:020 "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?' 012:021 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." 012:022 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.
012:023 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 012:024 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! 012:025 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? 012:026 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? 012:027 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. 012:028 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? 012:029 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. 012:030 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
012:031 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. 012:032 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. 012:033 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. 012:034 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 012:035 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
012:036 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. 012:037 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. 012:038 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
012:039 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.
012:040 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him." 012:041 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?" 012:042 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? 012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. 012:044 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
012:045 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, 012:046 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.
012:047 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, 012:048 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. 012:049 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 012:050 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
012:051 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 012:052 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
012:053 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." 012:054 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. 012:055 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens. 012:056 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? 012:057 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? 012:058 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.
012:059 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.{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.}"