Luqah 17:7–10 — The servant knows his position
7 Would any of you say to your servant who had just come in from the field after plowing or tending sheep, “Come! Sit down for dinner!”
8 Wouldn’t you say instead, “Change your clothes, prepare the food, and serve me dinner? Then after you have taken care of my dinner, you can eat.”
9 You would not have to thank the servant because the servant did what is required of them to do.
10 In the same way, when you have done everything required of you, you should say, “We servants deserve no special praise. We have only done our duty.”
Luqah 17:11–19 — Recognizing the Source
11 On the way to Yirushalam, Yahusha traveled along the borders of Shamarun and Galiyl.
12 As Yahusha entered a certain village, ten men with leprosy approached Him, but they stood at a distance.
13 They shouted, “Yahusha, Master, have compassion on us!”
14 When Yahusha saw them, He said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they started on their way to the priests, they were cleansed and healed.
15 When one of them noticed that he was healed, he returned and shouted out loud, praising Aluah.
16 The man fell on his face at Yahusha’s feet and thanked Him. He was a Shamaruniy.
17 Yahusha said to the man, “Weren’t there ten of you who were cleansed? Where are the other nine?
18 No one returned to praise Aluah except this foreigner?”
19 Then Yahusha said to the man, “Get up and go. Your faith has healed you.”
Luqah 18:9–14 — The central Day 14 passage
9 Yahusha then told a parable about certain people who looked down on everyone else and convinced themselves that they were righteous.
10 He said, “Two people went up to the Ahiykal to pray. One was a Parashiy and the other was a tax collector.
11 The Parashiy stood and prayed these words about himself, ‘Aluah I thank You that I am not like the rest of the people. They are thieves, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of everything I receive.’
13 However, the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even lift his eyes towards heaven. Rather, he hit his chest and said, ‘Aluah, I am a sinner. Please be compassionate with me.’
14 I tell you, it was the tax collector who went home justified and not the Parashiy. Everyone who exalts themselves will be brought low and humbled, but everyone who humbles themselves will be exalted.”
Luqah 18:15–17 — Humility receives
15 People started bringing their babies to Yahusha for Him to touch them. When the disciples saw this, they told the people to stop bothering Him.
16 However, Yahusha called the little children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me. Do not stop them because the Kingdom of Aluah belongs to people like these little children.
17 Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of Aluah like a little child, shall not enter into it.”
Luqah 18:18–23 — Obedience that still contains an unsubmitted place
18 Then a certain ruler asked Yahusha, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19 Yahusha replied, “Why do you call Me good? There is no one good except Aluah.
20 Besides, you know the Commandments, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ ‘Do not murder.’ ‘Do not steal.’ ‘Do not bear false witness.’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
21 Then the ruler said, “I have obeyed all of these things from my youth.”
22 When Yahusha heard this, He said to the man, “One thing you lack! Go and sell everything you own, and give the money to the poor, then you shall have treasure in Heaven. After that, come and follow Me.”
23 However, the ruler became deeply saddened when he heard these things, because he had many possessions that he valued more than eternal life.
Luqah 18:35–43 — Need, compassion, reception, following
35 As Yahusha approached Yiriyhu, a certain blind man was sitting beside the road begging.
36 When the blind man heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
37 They said to him, “Yahusha of Natsarat is passing by!”
38 Then the blind man cried out, “Yahusha, Son of Duyid, please have compassion on me!”
39 Those at the front of the crowd harshly told the blind man to be quiet, but the blind man started shouting even louder, “Son of Duyid, please have compassion on me!”
40 Yahusha stopped and ordered the blind man to be brought to Him. When the man was brought near to Yahusha, He asked him a question.
41 Yahusha asked, “What do you want Me to do for you?” The blind man answered, “Master, I want to see.”
42 Then Yahusha said to him, “Receive your sight! Your faith has healed you.”
43 Immediately the man received his sight and began to follow Yahusha and started praising Aluah! When all the people saw this, they started praising Aluah, too!
Luqah 19:1–10 — Truth becomes correction
1 Yahusha was passing through Yiriyhu.
2 There was a very rich chief tax collector who lived there named Zakiyus.
3 He was trying to see who Yahusha was. He was a short man, and because of this, he was having trouble seeing over the crowd.
4 Therefore, he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree in order to see Yahusha as He passed by that way.
5 When Yahusha came to that spot, He looked up and said, “Zakiyus, hurry up and come down. I must stay in your home today.”
6 Zakiyus came down at once, and he was happy to welcome Yahusha into his home.
7 Everyone who saw this started complaining, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner!”
8 Zakiyus stopped and said to Yahusha, “Master, Master, I have always given half of what I make to the poor, and if I have found that I have not paid a person all that was supposed to be paid, I repay them four times as much.”
9 Then Yahusha said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because he is also a son of Abaraham.
10 The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.”
Luqah 19:11–27 — Stewardship beneath the King
11 As the people were listening to Yahusha, He told them another parable. He did this because they thought that since He was near Yirushalam, that the Kingdom of Aluah would appear right away.
12 Yahusha said, “A certain man who was born into royalty went to a far away country to receive a kingdom and then return.
13 He called ten of his servants together, and gave each of them four months’ worth of wages. He said, ‘Do business with this money until I return.’
14 However, the citizens of his country hated him, so they sent messengers to the foreign country saying, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’
15 After the prince traveled to the foreign country and was made king, he returned and called his servants to come to him. He asked them how much they had earned with the money that he had given them to do business.
16 The first servant came and said, ‘Master, I earned ten times as much with the money You gave me.’
17 He said to him, ‘Well done! You are a good servant. Because you have been faithful with a small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’
18 The second servant came and said, ‘Master, I turned the money into five times more than what you gave me.’
19 He said to him, ‘You will now have authority over five cities.’
20 Another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your money. I wrapped it up in a cloth for safekeeping.
21 I was afraid of you because you are a hard man. You take what you do not deposit, and harvest what you do not sow.’
22 The king said to him, ‘You wicked servant! Your own words condemn you! You know that I am a hard man, taking what I do not deposit and harvesting what I do not sow.
23 Then why did you not take my money and put it in the bank, so when I returned, I would have at least collected interest on my money?’
24 The king then said to some of the other servants standing there, ‘Take the money that I gave to him and give it to the one who earned ten times as much.’
25 They replied, ‘Master, he already has ten times as much!’
26 The king replied, ‘I say to you that everyone who increases what they have, will be given more. However, those who do not increase what they have, even what they have will be taken away from them.
27 As for my enemies who do not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”
