Luke 12
English Standard Version
Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees
12 In the meantime, (A)when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, (B)“Beware of (C)the leaven of the Pharisees, (D)which is hypocrisy. 2 (E)Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in (F)private rooms shall be proclaimed on (G)the housetops.
Have No Fear
4 “I tell you, my friends, (H)do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him (I)who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him! 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?[b] And (J)not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 Why, (K)even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; (L)you are of more value than many sparrows.
Acknowledge Christ Before Men
8 “And I tell you, (M)everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge (N)before the angels of God, 9 but (O)the one who denies me before men (P)will be denied (Q)before the angels of God. 10 And (R)everyone who speaks a word (S)against the Son of Man (T)will be forgiven, but the one who (U)blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 11 (V)And when they (W)bring you before the synagogues and (X)the rulers and (Y)the authorities, (Z)do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, 12 (AA)for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 (AB)Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, (AC)“Man, (AD)who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 And he said to them, (AE)“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them a parable, saying, (AF)“The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, (AG)‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my (AH)barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (AI)for many years; relax, (AJ)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (AK)‘Fool! (AL)This night (AM)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (AN)whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one (AO)who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
Do Not Be Anxious
22 And he said to his disciples, (AP)“Therefore I tell you, (AQ)do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 (AR)Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. (AS)Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his (AT)span of life?[c] 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, (AU)even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, (AV)O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor (AW)be worried. 30 For (AX)all the nations of the world seek after these things, and (AY)your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, (AZ)seek (BA)his[d] kingdom, (BB)and these things will be added to you.
32 (BC)“Fear not, little (BD)flock, for (BE)it is your Father's good pleasure to give you (BF)the kingdom. 33 (BG)Sell your possessions, and (BH)give to the needy. (BI)Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with (BJ)a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 (BK)For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
You Must Be Ready
35 (BL)“Stay dressed for action[e] and (BM)keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are (BN)waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and (BO)knocks. 37 (BP)Blessed are those servants[f] whom the master finds (BQ)awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, (BR)he will dress himself for service and (BS)have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 (BT)But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour (BU)the thief was coming, he[g] would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be (BV)ready, for (BW)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Peter said, “Lord, (BX)are you telling this parable for us or for all?” 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is (BY)the faithful and (BZ)wise (CA)manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 43 (CB)Blessed is that servant[h] whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you, (CC)he will set him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master (CD)is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and (CE)get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come (CF)on a day when he does not expect him and (CG)at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 (CH)And that servant who (CI)knew his master's will but (CJ)did not get ready (CK)or act according to his will, will receive a (CL)severe beating. 48 (CM)But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, (CN)will receive a light beating. (CO)Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Not Peace, but Division
49 (CP)“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 (CQ)I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how (CR)great is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 (CS)Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? (CT)No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, (CU)father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Interpreting the Time
54 He also said to the crowds, (CV)“When you see (CW)a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. 55 And (CX)when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be (CY)scorching heat,’ and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! (CZ)You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Settle with Your Accuser
57 “And why (DA)do you not judge (DB)for yourselves what is right? 58 (DC)As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison. 59 I tell you, (DD)you will never get out until you have paid the very last (DE)penny.”[i]
Footnotes
- Luke 12:5 Greek Gehenna
- Luke 12:6 Greek two assaria; an assarion was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)
- Luke 12:25 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
- Luke 12:31 Some manuscripts God's
- Luke 12:35 Greek Let your loins stay girded; compare Exodus 12:11
- Luke 12:37 Or bondservants
- Luke 12:39 Some manuscripts add would have stayed awake and
- Luke 12:43 Or bondservant; also verses 45, 46, 47
- Luke 12:59 Greek lepton, a Jewish bronze or copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)
Luke 12
Young's Literal Translation
12 At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;
2 and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;
3 because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.
4 `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;
5 but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.
6 `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,
7 but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.
8 `And I say to you, Every one -- whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,
9 and he who hath denied me before men, shall be denied before the messengers of God,
10 and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.
11 `And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,
12 for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth [you] to say.'
13 And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'
14 And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'
15 And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'
16 And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;
17 and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?
18 and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,
19 and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
21 so [is] he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'
22 And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;
23 the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.
24 `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?
25 and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?
26 If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?
27 `Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;
28 and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?
29 `And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,
30 for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;
31 but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;
34 for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.
35 `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,
36 and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.
37 `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;
38 and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find [it] so, happy are those servants.
39 `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;
40 and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'
41 And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'
42 And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
43 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;
44 truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.
45 `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;
46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for [him], and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
47 `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
48 and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
49 `Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?
50 but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
51 `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;
52 for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three;
53 a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'
54 And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;
55 and when -- a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;
56 hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of [it]?
57 `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?
58 for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;
59 I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'
Luka 12
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Licemjerje
12 Okupilo se mnoštvo od više tisuća ljudi. Bilo ih je toliko da su gazili jedni po drugima. Isus se najprije obratio svojim učenicima: »Čuvajte se farizejskoga kvasca, to jest licemjerja! 2 Nema ništa sakriveno što se neće otkriti niti išta tajno što se neće saznati. 3 Prema tome, sve što u tami izgovorite, čut će se na svjetlu. A što ste kome šapnuli na uho u tajnosti sobe, vikat će se s krovova.«
Bojte se Boga, a ne ljudi
(Mt 10,28-31)
4 »I kažem vam, prijatelji, ne trebate se bojati onih koji ubijaju tijelo i nakon toga ne mogu ništa više učiniti. 5 Reći ću vam koga se trebate bojati: bojte se Boga koji, nakon što oduzme život, ima vlast baciti ga u pakao. Da, kažem vam, njega se bojte!
6 Ne prodaje li se pet vrabaca za dva novčića? Pa, ipak, ni jednoga od njih Bog ne zaboravlja. 7 A na vašoj su glavi čak i vlasi izbrojene. Ne bojte se! Vi vrijedite više od mnoštva vrabaca.«
Priznati Isusa
(Mt 10,32-33; 12,32; 10,19-20)
8 »Kažem vam: tko god mene prizna pred ljudima, ja ću ga pred Božjim anđelima priznati kao svoga. 9 No onoga tko se mene odrekne pred ljudima, ja ću se odreći pred Božjim anđelima.
10 Svakome tko kaže nešto protiv Sina Čovječjega bit će oprošteno, ali onome tko vrijeđa Svetog Duha neće se oprostiti.
11 Kad vas izvedu pred sinagoge, vladare i vlasti, nemojte se brinuti o tome kako ćete se braniti ili što ćete reći! 12 Sveti će vas Duh u taj tren poučiti što da kažete.«
Ne oslanjajte se na bogatstvo!
13 Tada mu je netko iz gomile rekao: »Učitelju, reci mojem bratu da podijeli nasljedstvo sa mnom!«
14 A Isus mu je odgovorio: »Čovječe, tko je mene imenovao da dijelim pravdu ili posredujem među vama?« 15 Rekao im je i ovo: »Čuvajte se i nemojte dopustiti da pohlepa uđe u vaše srce, jer čak i onome koji živi u izobilju, život ne dolazi iz onog što posjeduje.«
16 Tada im je ispričao jednu usporedbu: »Zemlja nekog bogataša dobro je rodila. On je u sebi pomislio i rekao: 17 ‘Što ću učiniti kad nemam gdje uskladištiti svoj urod?’ 18 Zatim je rekao: ‘Evo što ću učiniti: srušit ću svoje žitnice i sagraditi veće. Spremit ću u njih svoje žito i ostala dobra. 19 I reći ću samom sebi: imaš na zalihi mnogo dobara za godine koje dolaze. Odmori se, jedi, pij i veseli se!’
20 No Bog mu je rekao: ‘Bezumni čovječe, umrijet ćeš još večeras! A kome će pripasti ono što si spremio?’
21 Evo što se događa onome tko skuplja blago, ali nije bogat u Božjim očima.«
Prvenstvo Božjeg kraljevstva
(Mt 6,25-34)
22 Zatim je rekao svojim učenicima: »Zato vam kažem, nemojte se brinuti za svoj život—što ćete jesti, ili za svoje tijelo—što ćete obući! 23 Jer, život je važniji od hrane i tijelo od odjeće. 24 Promotrite vrane: niti siju, niti žanju. Nemaju ni smočnice ni žitnice pa ipak ih Bog hrani. A vi vrijedite mnogo više od ptica. 25 Tko od vas može brigama produžiti svoj život makar za jedan sat? 26 Budući da ne možete učiniti ni to malo, zašto se brinete za ostalo? 27 Promotrite ljiljane kako rastu! Niti se trude, niti izrađuju odjeću. A opet, kažem vam, čak ni Salomon u svoj svojoj slavi nije bio odjeven kao jedan od njih. 28 Ako Bog tako odijeva travu u polju, koja je danas ovdje, a sutra se baca u peć, koliko će više odjenuti vas, malovjerni! 29 Ne brinite se što ćete jesti ili što ćete piti! Ne uzrujavajte se zbog toga! 30 Ljudi ovoga svijeta opterećuju se time, ali vaš Otac zna da vam je sve to potrebno. 31 Nego, prvo se brinite za njegovo Kraljevstvo pa će vam se i to nadodati!« 32 »Malo stado, ne plaši se! Otac vam želi dati svoje Kraljevstvo. 33 Prodajte ono što posjedujete i dajte novac siromašnima. Nabavite si torbe, koje ne mogu ostarjeti, i blago koje neće propasti—trajno bogatstvo koje je na Nebu—gdje ga ne može dohvatiti lopov niti uništiti moljac. 34 Jer, gdje je vaše blago, tamo će vam biti i srce.«
Uvijek budite spremni!
(Mt 24,42-44)
35 »Budite spremni! Obucite se i neka vaše svjetiljke gore! 36 Budite kao oni koji čekaju svoga gospodara da se vrati sa svadbe. Kad on dođe i pokuca, mogu mu odmah otvoriti vrata. 37 Blagoslovljeni oni sluge koje će gospodar naći budne i spremne kada dođe. Govorim vam istinu. Gospodar će zaogrnuti pregaču da ih služi. Posjest će ih za stol i posluživati ih. 38 Gospodar može doći u ponoć ili još kasnije, ali blago njima kada dođe i vidi da ga još uvijek čekaju. 39 U ovo budite sigurni: da je gospodar znao u koje će vrijeme doći lopov, ne bi dopustio da mu provali u kuću. 40 I vi budite spremni, jer će Sin Čovječji doći u vrijeme kad ga ne očekujete!«
Tko je pouzdani sluga?
(Mt 24,45-51)
41 Tada ga je Petar upitao: »Gospodine, govoriš li ovu usporedbu samo nama ili svima?«
42 A Gospodin je rekao: »Tko je taj vjerni i mudri upravitelj kojeg će Gospodin postaviti nad svojim slugama da im u pravo vrijeme daje obrok? 43 Blago onom slugi kojega gospodar, kada dođe, zatekne da tako radi! 44 Kažem vam istinu: njega će odrediti da upravlja svim njegovim imetkom. 45 Ali što ako sluga u svom srcu kaže: ‘Moj gospodar neće tako skoro doći’ i počne tući sluge i sluškinje, jesti, piti i opijati se? 46 Njegov će gospodar doći onoga dana kad mu se ne nada i u vrijeme za koje ne zna. Tada će ga gospodar kazniti i dodijeliti mu mjesto među nevjernicima.
47 Sluga, koji zna volju svoga gospodara, a ne pripremi se za njegov dolazak ili ne čini ono što gospodar želi, dobit će mnogo udaraca. 48 No onaj sluga koji nije znao gospodarevu volju, a učinio je nešto zbog čega zaslužuje kaznu, primit će malo udaraca. Jer, od svakoga kome je dano mnogo, mnogo će se i zahtijevati. Kome je mnogo povjereno, više će se od njega tražiti.«
Nevolje zbog Isusa
(Mt 10,34-36)
49 »Došao sam zapaliti vatru na Zemlji. O, da barem već gori! 50 Ali najprije me čeka krštenje. O, na kakvoj sam muci dok se ono ne izvrši! 51 Mislite li da sam došao uspostaviti mir na Zemlji? Ne, kažem vam, donosim razdor. 52 Jer, od sada će obitelj od petero biti među sobom podijeljena—troje protiv dvoje i dvoje protiv troje.
53 Okrenut će se otac protiv sina i sin protiv oca,
majka protiv kćeri i kći protiv majke,
svekrva protiv snahe i snaha protiv svekrve.«[a]
Prepoznajte znakove vremena
(Mt 16,2-3)
54 Zatim je rekao narodu: »Kad vidite da sa zapada dolazi oblak, smjesta kažete: ‘Dolazi kiša’, i bude. 55 A kad puše južni vjetar, kažete: ‘Bit će vruće’, i bude. 56 Licemjeri! Znate protumačiti izgled zemlje i neba pa kako onda ne znate protumačiti događaje ovoga vremena?«
Riješite nesuglasice!
(Mt 5,25-26)
57 »Zašto sami ne prosudite što je pravedno? 58 Dok sa svojim protivnikom idete na sud, potrudite se da se putem nagodite s njim. Inače, on će vas privesti sucu, sudac će vas predati sudskom izvršitelju, a on će vas baciti u zatvor. 59 Kažem vam, nećete izaći odande dok ne platite i posljednji novčić.«
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