Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Just at that time some people had come to tell
Jesus about the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate
had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
2 “Do you suppose,” replied Jesus, “that, because these
Galilaeans have suffered in this way, they were worse sinners
than any other Galilaeans?
3 No, I tell you; but, unless you
repent, you will all perish as they did.
4 Or those eighteen
men at Siloam on whom the tower fell, killing them all, do
you suppose that they were worse offenders than any other
inhabitants of Jerusalem?
5 No, I tell you; but, unless you
repent, you will all perish in the same manner.”
6 And Jesus told them this parable—
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“A man, who had a fig tree growing in his
vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but
could not find any.
7 So he said to his gardener
‘Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree,
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without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the
soil?’
8 ‘Leave it this one year more, Sir,’ the man answered, ‘till
I have dug round it and manured it.
9 Then, if it bears in
future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.’”
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10 Jesus was teaching on a Sabbath in one of
the Synagogues,
11 and he saw before him a woman
who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness,
owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was
bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.
12 When
Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said:
“Woman, you are released from your weakness.”
13 He placed his hands on her, and she was instantly made
straight, and began to praise God.
14 But the President of the
Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the
Sabbath, interposed and said to the people:
“There are six days on which work ought to be done; come
to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath.”
15 “You hypocrites!” the Master answered him. “Does not
every one of you let his ox or his ass loose from its manger,
and take it out to drink, on the Sabbath?
16 But this woman, a
daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan
for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released
from her bondage on the Sabbath?”
17 As he said this, his opponents all felt ashamed; but all the
people rejoiced to see all the wonderful things that he was
doing.
18 So Jesus said:
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“What is the Kingdom of God like? and to
what can I liken it?
19 It is like a mustard-seed
which a man took and put in his garden. The
seed grew and became a tree, and ‘the wild birds roosted in
its branches.’” note
20 And again Jesus said:
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“To what can I liken the Kingdom of God?
21 It is like some yeast which a woman took and
covered in three pecks of flour, until the whole
had risen.”
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22 Jesus went through towns and villages, teaching
as he went, and making his way towards
Jerusalem.
23 “Master,” some one asked, “are there but few in the path
of Salvation?”
And Jesus answered:
24 “Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will
seek to go in,
25 but they will not be able when once the
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master of the house has got up and shut the door, while you
begin to say, as you stand outside and knock, ‘Sir, open the
door for us.’ His answer will be—‘I do not know where you
come from.’
26 Then you will begin to say ‘We have eaten and
drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets,’
27 and his reply will be—‘I do not know where you
come from.
Leave my presence, all you who are living in wickedness.’ note
28 There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you
see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the
Kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.
29 People will come from East and West, and from North
and South, and take their places at the banquet in the
Kingdom of God. note
30 There are some who are last now who
will then be first, and some who are first now who will then
be last!”
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31 Just then some Pharisees came up to Jesus and
said:
“Go away and leave this place, for Herod
wants to kill you.”
32 But Jesus answered:
“Go and say to that fox ‘Look you, I am driving out demons
and shall be completing cures to-day and to-morrow, and on
the third day I shall have done.’
33 But to-day and to-morrow
and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be
that a Prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.
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34 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! she who slays the Prophets and stones
the messengers sent to her—Oh, how often have I
wished to gather your children round me, as a
hen takes her brood under her wings, and you
would not come!
35 Verily your House is left to you desolate!
and never, I tell you, shall you see me, until you say—
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” note
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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