6
1 Now it happened on a Sabbath that he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain.
2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
3 And answering them, Jesus said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and the men who were with him?
4 He entered into the house of God, and took the bread of the presence and ate it, and gave it to those with him, which is not lawful to eat, except only for the priests.”
5 Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
6 Now it happened that on another Sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
7 But the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him closely to see whether he would heal someone on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.
8 But he knew what they were thinking and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up, and stand in the midst of us.” So the man got up and stood there.
9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a soul or to destroy it?”
10 Then he looked around at them all and said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored.
11 But they were filled with anger and they talked to each other about what they might do to Jesus.
12 Now it happened that in those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.
13 Now when it became day, he called his disciples to him, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:
14 Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew; and James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew;
15 and Matthew and Thomas; and James son of Alphaeus; and Simon who was called the Zealot;
16 and Judas son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
17 Then he came down the mountain with them and stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples, and with a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.
18 They had come to listen to him and to be healed of their diseases. Those who were troubled with unclean spirits were also healed.
19 Now the whole crowd kept trying to touch him because power was coming out from him and healing them all.
20 Then he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, and said, “Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are those who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are those who weep now, for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for see, your reward in heaven is great. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
24 But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to the ones who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in the same way.
27 But I say to you who are listening, love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.
28 Bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you.
29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer him also the other, and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back.
31 And as you desire that people would do to you, do the same to them.
32 For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
33 For if indeed you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to be repaid, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back the same.
35 But love your enemies and do good to them, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
37 And do not judge, and you will not be judged. And do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38 Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure— pressed down, shaken together, spilling over— they will pour into your lap. For with the measure you measure, it will be measured back to you.”
39 Then he also told them a parable. “A blind man is not able to guide a blind man, is he? Would both not fall into a pit?
40 A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher.
41 And why do you look at the tiny piece of straw that is in the eye of your brother, but you do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the piece of straw that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take out the log from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the piece of straw that is in the eye of your brother.
43 For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor on the other hand, a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from a thornbush, nor do they gather grapes from a briar bush.
45 The good man from the good treasure of his heart produces what is good, and the evil man from his evil produces what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
46 Now why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
47 Everyone who is coming to me and hearing my words, and doing them, I will show you what he is like.
48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down and dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock. Then a flood came, the torrent of water flowed against that house, but could not shake it, because it had been built well.
49 But the one who hears and does not do them, he is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the torrent of water flowed, and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
The Gospel of Luke