The Concordant Literal New Testament

Luke’s Account

Chapter 6

¹ Now it occurred on the second first sabbath, He is going through the sowings, and His disciples plucked the ears and ate, rubbing them together in their hands.
² Now certain of the Pharisees said to the, "What you are doing is what is not allowed to be done on the sabbaths."
³ And answering, Jesus said to them, "Did you not even read this, which David does once when he hungers, he and those who are with him,
⁴ how he entered into the house of God, and, taking the showbread, he ate also, and gives to those with him also, that which is not allowed to be eaten except only by the priests?"
⁵ And He said to them that "The Son of Mankind is Lord of the sabbaths also."
⁶ Now it occurred on a different sabbath also, He is entering into the synagogue and teaching. And there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
⁷ Now the scribes and the Pharisees scrutinized Him, to see if He is curing on the sabbath, that they may be finding an accusation against Him.
⁸ Yet He had perceived their reasonings. Now He said to the man having the withered hand, "Rouse and stand in the midst." And rising, he stood.
⁹ Now Jesus said to them, "I will be inquiring of you if it is allowed on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a soul or to destroy?"
¹⁰ And looking about on them all, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." Now he does it, and his hand was restored as the other.
¹¹ Now they are filled with folly, and they spoke about it to one another, saying, What should they be doing to Jesus?
¹² Now it occurred in these days that He came out into the mountain to pray, and throughout the night He was in the prayer of God.
¹³ And when it became day He shouts to His disciples, and chooses from them twelve, whom He names apostles also:
¹⁴ Simon, whom He names also Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew,
¹⁵ and Matthew and Thomas, and James of Alpheus and Simon, called a Zealot,
¹⁶ and Judas of James and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.
¹⁷ And, descending with them, He stood on an even place. And a vast throng of His disciples and a vast multitude of people from entire Judea and Jerusalem and maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases
¹⁸ and who are annoyed by unclean spirits, were cured.
¹⁹ And the entire throng sought to touch Him, for power came out of Him, and He healed all.
²⁰ And He, lifting up His eyes to His disciples, said "Happy are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
²¹ Happy are those hungering now, for you shall be satisfied. Happy are those lamenting now, for you shall be laughing.
²² Happy are you whenever men should be hating you, and whenever they should be severing from you and reproaching you and casting out your name as wicked, on account of the Son of Mankind.
²³ You may be rejoicing in that day, and frisk, for lo! your wages are vast in heaven, for according to the same manner did their fathers to the prophets.
²⁴ "Moreover, woe to you who are rich, for you are collecting your consolation!
²⁵ Woe to you who are filled now, for you shall be hungering! Woe to you who are laughing now, for you shall be mourning and lamenting!
²⁶ Woe to you whenever all men may be saying fine things of you, for according to the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets!
²⁷ "But to you, who are hearing, am I saying: Love your enemies. Be doing ideally to those who are hating you.
²⁸ Bless those who are cursing you. Pray concerning those who are traducing you.
²⁹ To him who is beating you on the cheek, be tendering the other also. And you should not be preventing him who is taking away your cloak from taking your tunic also.
³⁰ Now you, be giving to everyone who is requesting, and from him who is taking away what is yours be not demanding it.
³¹ And, according as you are wanting that men may be doing to you, you also be doing to them likewise.
³² "And if you are loving those loving you, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are loving those loving them.
³³ And if you should be doing good to those doing good to you, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are doing the same.
³⁴ And if you should ever be lending to those from whom you are expecting to get back, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are lending to sinners, that they may get back the equivalent.
³⁵ Moreover, be loving your enemies, and be doing good, and be lending, expecting nothing from them, and your wages will be vast in the heavens, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
³⁶ "Become, then, pitiful, according as your Father also is pitiful.
³⁷ And be not judging, and under no circumstances may you be judged; and be not convicting, and under no circumstances may you be convicted; be releasing, and you shall be released;
³⁸ be giving, and it shall be given to you: a measure ideal, squeezed down and shaken together and running over, shall they be giving into your bosom. For the same measure with which you are measuring will be measured to you again."
³⁹ Now He told them a parable also: "The blind can not guide the blind. Will not both be falling into a pit?
⁴⁰ A disciple is not above his teacher, yet everyone who is adjusted will be as his teacher.
⁴¹ "Now why are you observing the mote in your brother's eye, yet the beam in your own eye you are not considering?
⁴² Or how can you be saying to your brother, 'Brother, let me extract the mote in your eye,' observing not, yourself, the beam in your eye? Hypocrite! Extract first the beam out of your eye, and then you will be keen-sighted to be extracting the mote in your brother's eye.
⁴³ For an ideal tree is not producing rotten fruit; again, neither is a rotten tree producing ideal fruit.
⁴⁴ For each tree is known by its own fruit. For not from thorns are they culling figs, neither from a thorn bush are they picking grapes.
⁴⁵ "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart is bringing forth that which is good, and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure of his heart is bringing forth that which is wicked, for out of the superabundance of the heart his mouth is speaking.
⁴⁶ "Now why are you calling Me 'Lord,' and are not doing what I am saying?
⁴⁷ Everyone coming to Me and hearing My words and doing them-I shall be intimating to you whom he is like.
⁴⁸ Like is he to a man building a house, who digs and deepens, and places the foundation on a rock. Now, at an inundation occurring, the river bursts through to that house, and it is not strong enough to shake it, because it is ideally built.
⁴⁹ "Now he who hears, and does not, is like a man building a house on the earth without a foundation, to which the river bursts through, and straightway it collapses; and the crash of that house came to be great."

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