Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, LukeWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Luke
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Luke
012:049 "I came to throw fire upon the earth, and what is my desire?
Oh that it were even now kindled!
012:050 But I have a baptism to undergo; and how am I pent up till
it is accomplished!
012:051 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell
you that I came to bring dissension.
012:052 For from this time there will be in one house five persons
split into parties. Three will form a party against two
and two will form a party against three;
012:053 father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter
and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law her mother-in-law."
012:054 Then He said to the people also, "When you see a cloud rising
in the west, you immediately say, `There is to be a shower;'
and it comes to pass.
012:055 And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, `It will be
burning hot;' and it comes to pass.
012:056 Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky.
How is it you cannot read this present time?
012:057 "Why, too, do you not of yourselves arrive at just conclusions?
012:058 For when, with your opponent, you are going before the magistrate,
on the way take pains to get out of his power; for fear that,
if he should drag you before the judge, the judge may hand
you over to the officer of the court, and the officer lodge
you in prison.
012:059 Never, I tell you, will you get free till you have paid
the last farthing."
013:001 Just at that time people came to tell Him about the Galilaeans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
013:002 "Do you suppose," He asked in reply, "that those Galilaeans
were worse sinners than the mass of the Galilaeans,
because this happened to them?
013:003 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you are not
penitent you will all perish as they did.
013:004 Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you
suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest
of the people who live in Jerusalem?
013:005 I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not
repent you will all perish just as they did."
013:006 And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said,
"who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look
for fruit on it and could find none.
013:007 So he said to the gardener, "`See, this is the third year I have
come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any.
Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'
013:008 "But the gardener pleaded, "`Leave it, Sir, this year also,
till I have dug round it and manured it.
013:009 If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not,
then you shall cut it down.'"
013:010 Once He was teaching on the Sabbath in one of the synagogues
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