Luqah 6:46–49
46 Do not continue calling Me your Master if you do not do the things that I tell you to do.
47 I will show you what it is like for the person who listens to Me and obeys Me.
48 That person is like someone who dug deep and built their house on a solid rock foundation. When a flood came, and the river beat up against the house, it could not shake or tear down the house, because it had been built right.
49 However, the person who hears My Words and does not obey Me is like someone who built their house without a foundation. As soon as the river floods and beats against their house, it is completely destroyed!
Luqah 7:1–10
1 After Yahusha had finished speaking to all the people there, He went to Kapar Nahum.
2 There was an army officer’s servant there who was very close to him. The servant was very sick and about to die.
3 When the army officer heard about Yahusha, he sent some elders of the Yahudiym to Yahusha to ask Him to come and save his servant from dying.
4 When they came to Yahusha, they pleaded with Him, saying, “We feel the army officer deserves for You to come and help him.
5 He loves our people and even built an assembly for us.”
6 Yahusha went with them. He almost reached the house when the army officer sent friends to say to Yahusha, “Master, do not be bothered. I do not deserve to have You come under my roof.
7 I do not even consider myself worthy to come to You. I know that if You just say the Word, my servant will be healed.
8 I understand this because I am also a man who has authority. I have soldiers under my command. I say to this soldier, ‘Go,’ and he goes. I say to another soldier, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
9 When Yahusha heard these things, He was amazed. Yahusha turned to the crowd that was following Him and said to them, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith in all of Yisharal. No, not anyone.”
10 When the army officer’s friends returned to the house, they found the servant healed and completely healthy.
Luqah 7:11–23
11 A little while later, Yahusha went to a city called Nayin. His disciples and a large crowd traveled with Him.
12 Now, as Yahusha approached the gate of the city, there was a dead man being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
13 When Yahusha saw the woman, He had compassion for her. The Master said to the woman, “Do not cry.”
14 Yahusha stepped forward and touched the stretcher which was carrying the dead man. Those carrying him stood still. Yahusha then said, “Young man, I say to you, ‘Get up.’”
15 The dead man sat up and began to speak. Yahusha gave the man to his mother.
16 Everyone was shocked, and they all started praising Aluah, saying, “A great Prophet has risen among us!” Then they said, “Aluah has come to help His people!”
17 This report about what Yahusha did spread throughout Yahud and all the surrounding regions.
18 Yahuhanan the Immerser’s disciples told him about all the things that Yahusha was doing.
19 Yahuhanan sent two of his disciples to the Master Yahusha and told them to ask Yahusha, “Are You the One who has come, or should we look for another?”
20 When the two men reached Yahusha, they said, “Yahuhanan the Immerser has sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who has come, or should we look for another?’”
21 Right then, in front of the two men, Yahusha healed many of their diseases, illnesses, evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.
22 Then Yahusha said to Yahuhanan’s disciples, “Go and report to Yahuhanan the things which you have seen and heard. Tell him, ‘The blind receive their sight, the crippled walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised back to life, and the poor have the Bashurah preached to them.’
23 Favored is anyone who does not stumble because of Me.”
Luqah 7:24–35
24 After Yahuhanan’s messengers left, Yahusha spoke to the crowds about Yahuhanan. Yahusha said, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed blowing in the wind?
25 What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who dress in fine clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces.
26 What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
27 Yahuhanan is the one whom it is written, ‘Behold, I am sending My messenger before You, and he shall prepare Your way before You.’
28 I tell you, notwithstanding the Son of Man, no one who has been born from a woman is greater than Yahuhanan the Immerser. However, the one who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is.”
29 All the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged that Aluah’s ways were right because they had been immersed by Yahuhanan.
30 However, the Parashiym and scribes rejected Aluah’s will for themselves, because they had not been immersed by Yahuhanan.
31 Yahusha then said, “How shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32 They are like children sitting in the marketplaces, calling out to others, saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you would not dance. We sang a funeral song, and you would not mourn.’
33 Yahuhanan the Immerser did not come asking for food or for something to drink, and they say, ‘He has a demon in him.’
34 The Son of Man actually came asking for food and for something to drink, and they say, ‘Look, He is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35 However, wisdom is shown to be right by what it does.”
Luqah 7:36–50
36 One of the Parashiym named Shama’aun invited Yahusha to come and eat with him. Yahusha entered the Parashiy’s home and He sat down at the table.
37 Meanwhile, a sinful woman from the city found out that Yahusha was eating at the Parashiy’s house. She went to where Yahusha was and brought a vase filled with expensive perfume.
38 She knelt down behind Yahusha at His feet and began crying. She wet His feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair from her head. She kissed His feet, and she anointed them with the expensive perfume.
39 Now, when the Parashiy who had invited Yahusha saw what was happening, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know what kind of woman is touching Him. He would know that she is a sinner.”
40 Yahusha spoke and said, “Shama’aun, I have something to say to you.” Shama’aun replied, “Teacher, go ahead and speak.”
41 Then Yahusha said, “A certain lender had two debtors. One owed five hundred silver coins, and the other owed fifty silver coins.
42 When they both could not repay what they owed, the lender forgave both of their debts. Which of the two would love the lender the most who forgave them?”
43 Shama’aun answered and said, “I suppose the one who had the largest debt canceled.” Yahusha replied, “You have judged correctly.”
44 Yahusha turned to the woman and said to Shama’aun, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me any water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
45 You did not greet Me with a kiss, but ever since she came in and saw Me, she has not stopped kissing My feet.
46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but she poured expensive perfume oil on My feet.
47 Therefore, I say to you, ‘Her sins, which are many, have been forgiven because she loved much, but the one who has little to be forgiven also loves little.’”
48 Then Yahusha looked at the woman and said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 The other table guests began to say to each other, “Who is this person that even forgives sins?”
50 Yahusha then said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
Luqah 8:4–15
4 When a great crowd was gathering, and people were coming from one city after another, Yahusha spoke a parable to them.
5 Yahusha said, “A farmer went out and sowed his seed. As he was sowing the seed, some of the seeds fell on the path and were trampled over. The birds of the sky came and ate them up.
6 Other seeds fell among the rocks. As soon as they grew, they dried up because they had no moisture.
7 Other seeds fell among the thorns. The thorns grew with the plants and choked them out.
8 However, other seeds fell on good ground. When they grew, they produced fruit that was a hundred-fold more than what was sowed.” As He said these things, He shouted, “The one who has ears to hear, let them hear!”
9 Yahusha’s disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
10 Yahusha told them, “You have been given the mysteries of the Kingdom of Aluah, but for everyone else, these things about the Kingdom of Aluah are said to them in parables. As it is written, ‘When they see, they cannot see, and when they hear, they cannot understand.’
11 The parable I just shared means this: The seed is the Word of Aluah.
12 The seeds on the path are those who hear the Word, but then the devil comes and steals the Word from their hearts so that they will not believe and be saved.
13 The seeds that fell among the rocks are those who receive the Word with joy when they hear it, but they do not have deep roots. They believe for a while, but then they fall away when they are tempted.
14 The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who go about their lives, but the cares of this world, riches, and the pleasures of life choke them out. Their fruit never matures.
15 As for the seeds that fell on good ground, these are the ones who hear the Word and commit to it with an honest and sincere heart. They last and produce a harvest.
Luqah 8:16–25
16 No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed. They put the light on a stand so that those who enter may see the light.
17 Nothing hidden will remain concealed, and every secret will be revealed and brought into the Light.
18 Listen very carefully. Those who have learned to have more will be given even more. However, those who have not learned to have more, even what they have or think they have, will be taken away from them.”
19 Then Yahusha’s mother, brothers, and sisters came to Him, but they could not reach Him because of the size of the crowd.
20 Someone came to Yahusha and said, “Your mother, brothers, and sisters are standing outside, and they want to see You.”
21 Yahusha answered and said to them, “My mother, brothers, and sisters are those who hear the Word of Aluah and do it.”
22 One day, Yahusha and His disciples got into a boat. Yahusha told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side,” so they launched the boat and headed that way.
23 While they were sailing, Yahusha fell asleep. Suddenly, a severe storm came on the waters. The boat was filling up with water, and they were in danger of sinking.
24 The disciples went to Yahusha and woke Him up. They were shouting, “Master, Master, we are going to drown!” When Yahusha woke up, He rebuked the wind and the violent waves. The storm died down and it was calm.
25 Yahusha then asked His disciples, “Where is your faith?” Filled with shock and amazement, the disciples said to each other, “Who is this? He even commands the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
