The Essential Jesus: Read the Gospel of Jesus for Yourself by Tony Payne

Author:Tony Payne
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Two Ways to Live, Parallel Editions, Bibles, Luke, Christianity, Jesus, Multiple Translations, Gospel, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
ISBN: 9781921441592
Publisher: Matthias Media
Published: 2008-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Some of those present at that time told Jesus about the people from Galilee whose blood Pilate[54] had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus responded, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things? No, I tell you, but if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen people upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but if you do not repent, you will all perish just as they did.”

Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. Then he said to the gardener, ‘Look, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years, yet I still find none. Cut it down. Why should it even waste the soil?’ But the gardener answered, ‘Lord, please leave it for one more year, until I can dig around it and fertilise it. It may yet produce fruit; but if it does not, by all means, cut it down.’”

Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath Day. There was a woman there who had suffered from a spirit of weakness for eighteen years; she was doubled over and unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, be released from your weakness”. He laid his hands on her and immediately she straightened up and began honouring and praising God.

But the synagogue-leader was very annoyed that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath Day, and responded by saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done, so come and be healed on one of those days, not on the Sabbath Day!”

But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you release your ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath, and lead it away for a drink? This woman is a daughter of Abraham. She has been imprisoned by Satan for eighteen years. Should she not be released from this prison on the Sabbath Day?”

As he said these things, those who opposed him were humiliated, yet the entire crowd was overjoyed because of the wonderful things he was doing.

So he said, “What is the kingdom of God like and to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and threw into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.” Again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.”

Jesus was travelling through various cities and towns, teaching in them, as he continued his journey toward Jerusalem.

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