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LU KE 7
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come back against you. Forgive others, and you
will be forgiven. 38 Give, and you will receive.
Your gift will return to you in full—pressed
down, shaken together to make room for more,
running over, and poured into your lap. The
amount you give will determine the amount
you get back.*”
39 Then Jesus gave the following illustration:
“Can one blind person lead another? Won’t
they both fall into a ditch? 40 Students* are not
greater than their teacher. But the student who
is fully trained will become like the teacher.
41 “And why worry about a speck in your
friend’s eye* when you have a log in your own?
42 How can you think of saying, ‘Friend,* let me
help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when
you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye;
then you will see well enough to deal with the
speck in your friend’s eye.
— promises —
from God
“Love your enemies!
Do good to them.
Lend to them without
expecting to be repaid.
Then your reward from
heaven will be very great.”
LU K E 6:35
The Tree and Its Fruit
43 “A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad
tree can’t produce good fruit. 44 A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from
thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from
bramble bushes. 45 A good person produces
good things from the treasury of a good heart,
and an evil person produces evil things from the
treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows
from what is in your heart.
Building on a Solid Foundation
46 “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’
when you don’t do what I say? 47 I will show you
what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it. 48 It is
like a person building a house who digs deep
and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the
floodwaters rise and break against that house,
it stands firm because it is well built. 49 But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person
who builds a house right on the ground, without a foundation. When the floods sweep down
against that house, it will collapse into a heap
of ruins.”
The Faith of a Roman Officer
When Jesus had finished saying all this
to the people, he returned to Capernaum.
2 At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer* was sick and near death. 3 When
the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and
heal his slave. 4 So they earnestly begged Jesus
to help the man. “If anyone deserves your help,
he does,” they said, 5 “for he loves the Jewish
people and even built a synagogue for us.”
6 So Jesus went with them. But just before
they arrived at the house, the officer sent some
friends to say, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself by
coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such
an honor. 7 I am not even worthy to come and
meet you. Just say the word from where you are,
and my servant will be healed. 8 I know this because I am under the authority of my superior
officers, and I have authority over my soldiers.
I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’
and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do
this,’ they do it.”
9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed.
Turning to the crowd that was following him,
he said, “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith like this
in all Israel!” 10 And when the officer’s friends
returned to his house, they found the slave completely healed.
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Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
11 Soon afterward Jesus went with his disciples
to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed him. 12 A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The
young man who had died was a widow’s only
son, and a large crowd from the village was with
her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” he said.
14 Then he walked over to the coffin and touched
it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” he
said, “I tell you, get up.” 15 Then the dead boy
sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him
back to his mother.
16 Great fear swept the crowd, and they
praised God, saying, “A mighty prophet has
risen among us,” and “God has visited his
people today.” 17 And the news about Jesus
spread throughout Judea and the surrounding
countryside.
Jesus and John the Baptist
18 The disciples of John the Baptist told John
about everything Jesus was doing. So John
called for two of his disciples, 19 and he sent
them to the Lord to ask him, “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting,* or should we keep
looking for someone else?”
6:38 Or The measure you give will be the measure you get back.
6:40 Or Disciples. 6:41 Greek your brother’s eye; also in 6:42.
6:42 Greek Brother. 7:2 Greek a centurion; similarly in 7:6.
7:19 Greek Are you the one who is coming? Also in 7:20.