Luke 14-16 (Darby Translation)

Luke 14

 ¹And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, [who was] of the Pharisees, to eat bread on [the] sabbath, that *they* were watching him.

 ²And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.

 ³And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

 ⁴But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go.

 ⁵And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

 ⁶And they were not able to answer him to these things.

 ⁷And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

 ⁸When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

 ⁹and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this [man], and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.

 ¹⁰But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

 ¹¹for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

 ¹²And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.

 ¹³But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

 ¹⁴and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not [the means] to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.

 ¹⁵And one of those that were lying at table with [them], hearing these things, said to him, Blessed [is] he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

 ¹⁶And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

 ¹⁷And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

 ¹⁸And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

 ¹⁹And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

 ²⁰And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

 ²¹And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

 ²²And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room.

 ²³And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

 ²⁴for I say to you, that not one of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper.

 ²⁵And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he said to them,

 ²⁶If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

 ²⁷and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

 ²⁸For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;

 ²⁹in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,

 ³⁰saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

 ³¹Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

 ³²and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

 ³³Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

 ³⁴Salt [then] [is] good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

 ³⁵It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 15

 ¹And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;

 ²and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This [man] receives sinners and eats with them.

 ³And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

 ⁴What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

 ⁵and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

 ⁶and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

 ⁷I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

 ⁸Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

 ⁹and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

 ¹⁰Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.

 ¹¹And he said, A certain man had two sons;

 ¹²and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls [to me]. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.

 ¹³And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

 ¹⁴But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

 ¹⁵And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

 ¹⁶And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

 ¹⁷And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.

 ¹⁸I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

 ¹⁹I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

 ²⁰And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

 ²¹And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

 ²²But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in [it], and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

 ²³and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

 ²⁴for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

 ²⁵And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming [up], he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

 ²⁶And having called one of the servants, he inquired what these things might be.

 ²⁷And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.

 ²⁸But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.

 ²⁹But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:

 ³⁰but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

 ³¹But he said to him, Child, *thou* art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

 ³²But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

Luke 16

 ¹And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.

 ²And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

 ³And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

 ⁴I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

 ⁵And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

 ⁶And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

 ⁷Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

 ⁸And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

 ⁹And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

 ¹⁰He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

 ¹¹If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

 ¹²and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

 ¹³No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

 ¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

 ¹⁵And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

 ¹⁶The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.

 ¹⁷But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

 ¹⁸Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

 ¹⁹Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

 ²⁰And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was laid at his gateway full of sores,

 ²¹and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

 ²²And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

 ²³And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

 ²⁴And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

 ²⁵But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.

 ²⁶And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

 ²⁷And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,

 ²⁸for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

 ²⁹But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

 ³⁰But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

 ³¹And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.