One Year Bible New Testament Sampler, Floral Paradise - Flipbook - Page 19
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LU KE 13:22–14:6
Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he went, always pressing on toward
Jerusalem. 23Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”
He replied, 24“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter
but will fail. 25When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand
outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you
or where you come from.’ 26Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in
our streets.’ 27And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away
from me, all you who do evil.’
28
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all
the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out. 29And people will come from all
over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of
God. 30And note this: Some who seem least important now will be the greatest then, and some
who are the greatest now will be least important then.”
31
At that time some Pharisees said to him, “Get away from here if you want to live! Herod Antipas wants to kill you!”
32
Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox that I will keep on casting out demons and healing people
today and tomorrow; and the third day I will accomplish my purpose. 33Yes, today, tomorrow,
and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it wouldn’t do for a prophet of God to be killed
except in Jerusalem!
34
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How
often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her
wings, but you wouldn’t let me. 35And now, look, your house is abandoned. And you will never
see me again until you say, ‘Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the LORD!’”
One Sabbath day Jesus went to eat dinner in the home of a leader of the Pharisees, and the
people were watching him closely. 2There was a man there whose arms and legs were swollen.
3
Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in religious law, “Is it permitted in the law to heal people
on the Sabbath day, or not?” 4When they refused to answer, Jesus touched the sick man and
healed him and sent him away. 5Then he turned to them and said, “Which of you doesn’t work
on the Sabbath? If your son or your cow falls into a pit, don’t you rush to get him out?” 6Again
they could not answer.
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