Luke 12

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

1Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling # 12:1 Lk 8:5 on one another. He began to say to his disciples first, # 12:1 Mt 16:5–6; Mk 8:14–15 “Be on your guard # 12:1 Jr 9:4; Lk 17:3; Ac 20:28 against the leaven # 12:1 Or yeast,# 12:1 Lk 13:21; Gl 5:9 of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. # 12:1 Mt 23:28; Mk 12:15; Gl 2:13; 1Pt 2:1 2There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered, # 12:2–9 Mt 10:26–33; Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17 nothing hidden that won’t be made known. # 12:2 Lk 6:44 3Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms # 12:3 Mt 6:6; 24:26; Lk 12:24 will be proclaimed on the housetops. # 12:3 Ac 10:9

Fear God

4 “I say to you, my friends, # 12:4 Ac 27:3 don’t fear # 12:4 Is 8:13; 51:12; Jr 1:8; Jn 6:20 those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. 5But I will show you the one to fear: Fear # 12:5 Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Ac 10:2; Rv 14:7 him who has authority to throw people into hell # 12:5 Mk 9:43; Jms 3:6 after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear! 6Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? # 12:6 Lit two assaria; a small copper coin Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. # 12:6 Ps 50:11 7Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Acknowledging Christ

8 “And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges # 12:8 Mt 7:23; Jn 9:22 me before others, the Son of Man # 12:8 Lk 5:24; 11:30 will also acknowledge him before the angels of God, # 12:8 Lk 15:10; Jn 1:51; Ac 10:3; Rm 10:9; Rv 3:5 9but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God. # 12:9 Lk 9:26 10Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, # 12:10 Mt 12:31–32; Mk 3:28–30 but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit # 12:10 Lk 1:15,35; 2:25–26; 3:22 will not be forgiven. 11Whenever # 12:11–12 Mt 10:19–20; Mk 13:11; Lk 21:14–15 they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, # 12:11 Lk 20:20; Eph 3:10; Col 2:15 don’t worry # 12:11 Php 4:6 about how you should defend # 12:11 Ac 26:24 yourselves or what you should say. 12For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.” # 12:12 Pr 1:23; Jn 14:26

The Parable of the Rich Fool

13Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, # 12:13 Lk 11:45 tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14 “Friend,” # 12:14 Lit Man he said to him, “who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you? ” 15He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard # 12:15 1Tm 6:20; 2Tm 1:14; 4:15; 2Pt 3:17; 1Jn 5:21 against all greed, # 12:15 Eph 5:3 because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.” # 12:15 Gn 12:5; Jb 20:20; 31:24; Ps 62:10

16Then he told them a parable: # 12:16 Lk 5:36; 8:11 “A rich # 12:16 Lk 6:24; 16:19; 18:23; 19:2; 21:1 man’s land was very productive. 17He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? 18I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. 19Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; # 12:19 Mt 11:28; Mk 6:31; Rv 6:11; 14:13 eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.” ’ # 12:19 Ec 2:24

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! # 12:20 Jr 17:11; Lk 11:40 This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared — whose will they be? ’ # 12:20 Ps 39:6; 49:10; Jr 17:11; Mt 16:26

21 “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure # 12:21 2Pt 3:7 for himself and is not rich toward God.” # 12:21 Mt 6:19–20

The Cure for Anxiety

22Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, # 12:22–32 Mt 6:25–34 don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear. # 12:22 Pr 31:25 23For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: # 12:24 1Kg 17:4,6; Jb 38:41; Ps 147:9; Pr 30:17 They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. # 12:24 Rv 12:6 Aren’t you worth much more than the birds? 25Can any of you add one moment to his life span # 12:25 Or add a cubit to his height by worrying? # 12:25 Php 4:6 26If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

27 “Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon # 12:27 1Kg 10:4–7 in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. 28If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will he do for you — you of little faith? # 12:28 Mt 8:26; 14:31; 16:8 29Don’t strive for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious. 30For the Gentile world eagerly seeks # 12:30 Heb 11:14; 13:14 all these things, and your Father # 12:30 Mt 5:16; 6:1; 11:27; Jn 8:42 knows that you need them.

31 “But seek his kingdom, # 12:31 Mt 5:6,20; Lk 11:2 and these things will be provided for you. # 12:31 1Kg 3:11–14; Mt 19:29; Mk 10:29–30 32Don’t be afraid, # 12:32 Lk 12:4,7 little flock, # 12:32 Is 40:11; Ac 20:28; 1Pt 5:2–3 because your Father delights # 12:32 Mt 11:26; Lk 10:21; Eph 1:5,9; Php 2:13 to give you the kingdom. # 12:32 Mt 13:19; 25:34; Lk 22:29 33Sell # 12:33–34 Mt 6:19–21 your possessions and give to the poor. # 12:33 Ac 24:17 Make money-bags # 12:33 Lk 10:4 for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure # 12:33 Mk 10:21; 2Co 4:7 in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. # 12:34 1Pt 1:4

Ready for the Master’s Return

35 “Be ready for service # 12:35 Lit “Let your loins be girded; an idiom for tying up loose outer clothing in preparation for action; Ex 12:11 and have your lamps lit. # 12:35–48 Mt 24:42–51; 25:1–13; Mk 13:33–37; Jn 13:4–5 36You are to be like people waiting for their master # 12:36 2Pt 3:12 to return from the wedding banquet # 12:36 Jn 2:1 so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. # 12:36 Rv 3:20 37Blessed will be those servants the master finds alert # 12:37 Rm 13:11 when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will get ready, # 12:37 Lit will gird himself have them recline at the table, then come and serve them. # 12:37 Lk 17:8; 22:27 38If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, # 12:38 Lit even in the second or third watch and finds them alert, blessed are those servants. 39But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, # 12:39 1Th 5:2 he would not have let his house be broken into. 40You also be ready, # 12:40 Lk 21:36 because the Son of Man # 12:40 Mk 2:10 is coming at an hour you do not expect.” # 12:40 1Th 5:2; 2Pt 3:10; Rv 3:3; 16:15

Rewards and Punishment

41“Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone? ”

42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager # 12:42 Lk 16:1 his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food # 12:42 1Tm 6:8 at the proper time? 43Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes. 44Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ # 12:45 1Jn 2:28 and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces # 12:46 Lit him in two and assign him a place with the unfaithful. # 12:46 Or unbelievers 47And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it # 12:47 Lit or do toward his will, will be severely beaten. # 12:47 Dt 25:2; Jms 4:17 48But the one who did not know and did what deserved # 12:48 Lv 5:17; Nm 15:29 punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected. # 12:48 Or much,# 12:48 Lv 5:17; Mt 13:12; Rm 1:20; 2:14; 1Tm 1:13

Not Peace but Division

49 “I came # 12:49–53 Mt 10:34–36; Mk 10:38 to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze! 50But I have a baptism to undergo, # 12:50 Ac 22:16; Rm 6:3; Eph 4:5 and how it consumes # 12:50 2Co 5:14 me until it is finished! # 12:50 Jn 19:28; 19:30 51Do you think that I came here to bring peace on the earth? # 12:51 Lk 2:14 No, I tell you, but rather division. 52From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

53 They will be divided, father against son,

son against father,

mother against daughter,

daughter against mother,

mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,

and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” # 12:53 Mc 7:6,# 12:53 Mc 7:6

Interpreting the Time

54He also said to the crowds, # 12:54–56 Mt 16:2–3 “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does. # 12:54 1Kg 18:43–44 55And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. 56Hypocrites! # 12:56 Lk 6:42 You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this present time? # 12:56 Lk 20:10; 21:8,30

Settling Accounts

57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? # 12:57–59 Mt 5:25–26 58As you are going with your adversary # 12:58 1Pt 5:8 to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, # 12:58 2Tm 4:8 the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison. # 12:58 Pr 25:8 59I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.” # 12:59 Gk lepton, the smallest and least valuable copper coin in use,# 12:59 Lk 21:2

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Lukas 12

1Meanwhile, when the multitudes by the thousands assembled, to the point of trampling one another, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said this in a yechidus first to his talmidim, Be shomer regarding the chametz of the Perushim, which is their tzeviut (hypocrisy). 2And nothing that men hide in a cover up is concealed which will not be revealed, and nothing held nistar (hidden) which will not be laid bare. 3So then, what things you said in the choshech, will be heard in the ohr; and what you whispered in the ear bchadrei chadarim (in a most secret place) will be shouted from the roof tops.

4I say to you, my chaverim, do not have pachad (terror) of the killers of the basar, who after that have nothing more they can do. 5But I will show you someone of whom you should have yirah; fear the One who after killing the basar has the samchut to throw into Gehinnom. Ken, I say to you, have yirah (fear) of this One. 6Are not chamesh sparrows sold for two assarion? And not even one of them has been overlooked in the eynayim of Hashem. 7But even the hairs of your rosh have all been inventoried. Never fear. You are of more worth than many sparrows.

8And I say to you, whoever will declare the Ani Maamin public hoda'ah (acknowledgement) of me#12:8 as Moshiach before Bnei Adam, the Bar Enosh#12:8 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14 will make public hodaah (acknowledgement) of him before the malachim of Hashem. 9But the one having made hakhchashah (denial) of me#12:9 as the Bar Enosh Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14 before Bnei Adam will be denied before the malachim of Hashem. 10And everyone who will say a dvar against the Bar Enosh,#12:10 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14 he will be given selicha (forgiveness). But the one having committed Chillul Hashem gidduf (blasphemy) against the Ruach Hakodesh will not be given selicha. 11And when they bring you in before the shuls and the rulers and the manhigim, do not have a lev rogez about what you should speak in your own hitstaddekut (defense), or about your legal brief. 12For the Ruach Hakodesh will be your rabbi teaching you in the same hour what it is necessary to say.#12:12 Ex 4:12

13And someone out of the multitude said to him, Rabbi, speak to my ach to share with me the yerushah (inheritance). 14But he said to him, Ben Adam, who appointed me a shofet or an arbitrator over you? 15And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Take care and be shomer against all chamdanut (covetousness), because the Chayyei HaAdam does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.#12:15 Job 20:20; 31:24; Ps 62:10 16And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke a mashal (parable) to them saying, An aza (certain) oisher (rich man) had land that produced a good crop. 17And he was thinking to himself, saying, What should I do? Because I do not have a place where I will store my crops. 18And he said, This I will do. I will tear down my asim (granaries, storehouses) and I will build larger asim. And there I will gather all my grain and my produce. 19And I will say to my neshamah, Neshamah, you have an ample store of goods for many years to come. Take your ease, LEEKHOL, VLISHTOT, VLISHMOACH#12:19 Koh 8:15 (to eat, and to drink, and to be merry). 20But Hashem said to him, Goilem! Halailah hazeh your nashamah is required of you. Now to whom will be given what you prepared?#12:20 Jer 17:11; Job 27:8; Ps 39:6; 49:10 21Such is the one hoarding up for himself and not having osher toward Hashem.

22And Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Therefore, I say to you: do not have a LEV ROGEZ#12:22 Dt 28:65 for your Chayyim, about your okhel (food) or your basar (body), what you might put on. 23For the neshamah is more than okhel and the basar more than gartel (belt) and shtreimel (expensive hat).#12:23 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25,27; Isa 53:11 24Consider the ravens! They do not sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or asam (granary), yet Hashem feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the OPH HASHOMAYIM.#12:24 Job 38:41; Ps 147:9 25And can any of you by means of a LEV ROGEZ add one cubit to your span of Chayyim? 26If then you are not able to do even a small thing, why have a LEV ROGEZ about the rest? 27Consider the lilies! How they grow! A lily does not labor nor spin. But I say to you, not even Sh'lomo HaMelech in all his kavod was arrayed like one of these.#12:27 1Kgs 10:4-7 28And if Hashem so enrobes the grass of the field, which is here hayom (today) and thrown into the eish makhar (tomorrow), how much more will Hashem enrobe you, you ones of little bitachon. 29And don't keep striving after okhel (food) and skikuy (drink), and don't have a lev rogez (anxious heart). 30For all these things the Goyim of the Olam Hazeh strive after, but your Av#12:30 sh'ba'Shomayim has daas (knowledge) that you need these things. 31But seek the Malchut Hashem, and these things will be added to you as well.

32Do not have pachad (terror, fear), Eder Katan (Little Flock), because it is the ratzon, the chefetz (desire) of your Av#12:32 sh'ba'Shomayim to give you the Malchut. 33Sell your possessions and give tzedakah. Make for yourselves the baitel (wallet) that doesn't wear out, an inexhaustible otzar (treasure) in Shomayim, where no ganav (thief) comes near nor moth destroys. 34For where your otzar (treasure) is, there also will be your lev (heart).

35Tighten your gartels for action and have your menorahs lit. 36And you should be like bnei Adam who expectantly khakeh l'vo'o shel (await the arrival of) their Adon when he returns from the Chasunoh, in order that, when he comes and knocks, ofen ort they may open the delet for him. 37Ashrey are those avadim (servants), whom, having come, the Adon will find keeping shomer. Omein, I say to you, that he will fasten his gartel, and have those avadim (servants) sit down to tish, and he will come and serve them. 38And if in the second or if in the third watch he comes and finds it thus, ashrey (happy, blessed) are those. 39But have daas of this, that if the Baal Bayit had had da'as in what hour the ganav (thief) comes, he would not have allowed his bais to be broken into. 40So you be shomer, for the Bar Enosh#12:40 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14 comes in an hour you do not think.

41And Kefa said, Adoneinu, are you speaking this mashal for us or for all? 42And HaAdon said, Who then is the sochen haneeman and navon (faithful and wise steward) whom HaAdon will appoint over his avadim to give them their okhel (food) allowance at the proper time? 43Ashrey is that eved, whom, having come, his Adon will find doing thus. 44Omein, I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he has. 45But if that eved says in his lev, Adoni delays to come to me, and if that eved begins to beat the avadim (servants) and the shfakhot (maid servants), and to gluttonize and get down in his schnapps, 46HaAdon of that eved will come on a day which he does not expect and at an hour of which he does not have da'as, and will cut him in pieces and assign him the portion of the Apikoros with the koferim (unbelievers). 47That eved, who had daas of the ratzon of his Adon and did not get prepared or do according to his ratzon, will be beaten with a klap (blow) and not a few.#12:47 Dt 25:2 48But the one not having had daas, but having done things worthy of a klap, will receive but a few. But to everyone to whom much was given, much will be required from him, and to whom was entrusted much, even more achraius (accountability) will be required.#12:48 Lv 5:17; Num 15:27-30

49I came to throw Eish on the earth, and how I wish it was already kindled! 50And I have a tevilah I have to undergo, and how I am distressed until it is completed. 51Do you think that I came to bring Shalom on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather machaloket (division, controversy). 52For there will be from now in one bais (household) chamesh (five) having been divided, shalosha against shenayim and shenayim against shalosha, 53AV will be divided against BEN and BEN against AV, EM (mother) against BAT and BAT against EM, KALLAH BACHAMOT (daughter-in-law against mother-in-law) and CHAMOT against KALLAH.#12:53 Mic 7:6

54And he was saying also to the multitudes, When you see the anan rising over the maarav (west), ofen ort you say, Geshem (rain) is coming, and so it happens. 55And when there is a south wind blowing, you say, It will be kham (hot), and it happens. 56Tzevu'im! You have daas how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you do not have daas of how to interpret HaZman HaZeh (This Time)?

57And why also for yourselves do you not judge what is yashar (straight, right)? 58For as you go with your ish riv (opponent in a lawsuit) to appear before the magistrate, on the derech make an effort to settle with him, lest he drag you to the shofet, and the shofet will hand over you to the shoter, and the shoter will throw you into the beit hasohar. 59I say to you, by no means may you come out, until even the last peruta (small coin) you pay back.

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