Comman English Bible Luke

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Luke 6:39
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portion you give will determine the portion Jewish elders to Jesus to ask him to come you receive in return."
and heal his servant. “When they came to
Jesus, they earnestly pleaded with Jesus. Avoiding self-deception
"He deserves to have you do this for him," 39 Jesus also told them a riddle. “A they said. 5“He loves our people and he built blind person can't lead another blind per- our synagogue for us." son, right? Won't they both fall into a Jesus went with them. He had almost ditch? 40 Disciples aren't greater than their reached the house when the centurion teacher, but whoever is fully prepared will sent friends to say to Jesus, "Lord, don't be be like their teacher. 41Why do you see the bothered. I don't deserve to have you come splinter in your brother's or sister's eye under my roof. 'In fact, I didn't even conbut don't notice the log in your own eye? sider myself worthy to come to you. Just 42 How can you say to your brother or sister, say the word and my servant will be healed. ‘Brother, Sister, let me take the splinter out 8I'm also a man appointed under authority, of your eye,' when you don't see the log in with soldiers under me. I say to one, 'Go,' your own eye? You deceive yourselves! First and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he take the log out of your eye, and then you comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and will see clearly to take the splinter out of the servant does it." your brother's or sister's eye.
When Jesus heard these words, he was 43“A good tree doesn't produce bad fruit, impressed with the centurion. He turned nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. to the crowd following him and said, “I tell 44 Each tree is known by its own fruit. People you, even in Israel I haven't found faith like don't gather figs from thorny plants, nor do this.” 10When the centurion's friends rethey pick grapes from prickly bushes. 45A turned to his house, they found the servant good person produces good from the good restored to health. treasury of the inner self, while an evil person produces evil from the evil treasury of Jesus raises a widow's son the inner self. The inner self overflows with "A little later Jesus went to a city called words that are spoken.
Nain. His disciples and a great crowd trav46“Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and eled with him. As he approached the city don't do what I say? 47I'll show what it's gate, a dead man was being carried out. He like when someone comes to me, hears my was his mother's only son, and she was a words, and puts them into practice. 48It's widow. A large crowd from the city was with like a person building a house by digging her. When he saw her, the Lord had comdeep and laying the foundation on bed- passion for her and said, “Don't cry.” 14 He rock. When the flood came, the rising water stepped forward and touched the stretcher smashed against that house, but the water on which the dead man was being carried. couldn't shake the house because it was well Those carrying him stood still. Jesus said, built.4But those who don't put into practice “Young man, I say to you, get up." 15The what they hear are like a person who built a dead man sat up and began to speak, and house without a foundation. The floodwater Jesus gave him to his mother. smashed against it and it collapsed instantly. 16Awestruck, everyone praised God. “A It was completely destroyed.”
great prophet has appeared among us,” they
said. “God has come to help his people.” A servant is healed
17 This news about Jesus spread throughout 7 After Jesus finished presenting all his Judea and the surrounding region.
words among the people, he entered Capernaum. ?A centurion had a servant John the Baptist and Jesus who was very important to him, but the 18 John's disciples informed him about all servant was ill and about to die. "When the these things. John called two of his discicenturion heard about Jesus, he sent some ples and sent them to the Lord. They were