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Luke 18 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Persistent Widow
1 AND he spake also a parable to them that it behoveth always to pray, & not to be weary,
2 saying: There was a certain judge in a certain city, which feared not God, and of man made no account.
3 And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Revenge me of mine adversary.
4 And he would not of a long time. But afterward he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor make account of man,
5 yet because this widow is importune upon me, I will revenge her, lest at the last she come and defame me.
6 And our Lord said: Hear what the judge of iniquity sayeth.
7 And will not God revenge his elect that cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in them?
8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man coming, shall he find trow you, faith in the earth?
Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 And he said also to certain that trusted in them selves as just, and despised others, this parable:
10 Two men went up into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican.
11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with him self: God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also this Publican.
12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the Publican standing a far off would not so much as lift up his eyes toward Heaven; but he knocked his breast, saying: God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified more than he: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
Jesus Blesses the Children
15 And they brought unto him infants also, that he might touch them. Which thing when the Disciples saw, they rebuked them.
16 But JESUS calling them together, said: Suffer children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for the Kingdom of Heaven is for such.
17 Amen I say to you: Whosoever receiveth not the Kingdom of God as a child, shall not enter into it.
Rich Young Ruler
18 And a certain Prince asked him, saying: Good Master, by doing what, shall I possess everlasting life?
19 And JESUS said to him: Why doest thou call me good? None is good but only God.
20 Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father & mother.
21 Who said: All these things have I kept from my youth.
22 Which JESUS hearing, said to him: Yet one thing thou lackest: Sell all that ever thou hast, & give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven: and come follow me.
23 He hearing these things, was stroken sad: because he was very rich.
24 And JESUS seeing him stroken sad, said: How hardly shall they that have money enter into the Kingdom of God?
25 For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.
26 And they that heard, said: And who can be saved?
27 He said to them: The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God.
28 And Peter said: Lo, we have left all things, and have followed thee.
29 Who said to them: Amen I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children for the Kingdom of God,
30 and shall not receive much more in this time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Third Prediction of the Passion
31 And JESUS took the Twelve, and said to them: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be consummate which were written by the Prophets of the Son of man.
32 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and scourged, and spit upon:
33 and after they have scourged him, they will kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.
34 And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them, and they understood not the things that were said.
Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar
35 And it came to pass, when he drew nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way, begging.
36 And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this should be.
37 And they told him that JESUS of Nazareth passed by.
38 And he cried saying: JESUS son of David, have mercy upon me.
39 And they that went before, rebuked him, that he should hold his peace. But he cried much more, Son of David have mercy upon me.
40 And JESUS standing commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him,
41 saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee? but he said: Lord, that I may see.
42 And JESUS said to him: Do thou see; thy faith hath made thee whole.
43 And forthwith he saw, and followed him, magnifying God. And all the people as they saw it, gave praise to God.
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