Shall seek, etc. . .Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking
sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to
it.
13:25. But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut
the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door,
saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know
you not, whence you are.
13:26. Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy
presence: and thou hast taught in our streets.
13:27. And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart
from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
13:28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of
God: and you yourselves thrust out.
13:29. And there shall come from the east and the west and the north
and the south: and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
13:30. And behold, they are last that shall be first: and they are
first that shall be last.
13:31. The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him:
Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.
13:32. And he said to them: Go and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out
devils and do cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am
consummated.
13:33. Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day
following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of
Jerusalem.
13:34. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest
them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest
not?
13:35. Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to
you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke Chapter 14
Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The
necessity of renouncing all to follow Christ.
14:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the
Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
14:2. And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the
dropsy.
14:3. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying:
Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
14:4. But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent
him away.
14:5. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an
ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the
sabbath day?
14:6. And they could not answer him to these things.
14:7. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking
how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
14:8. When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first
place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:
14:9. And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this
man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.
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