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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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