Luke 7

Healing the Centurion's Slave

¹ When he had fulfilled all his words to the hearing of the crowd, he went to Capernaum. ² Now [a] certain slave of [a] centurion having [it] evil-ly was [about] to come to the end, who was to him honored. ³ So having heard concerning Jesus he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking¹ him in order that having come he should save his slave. ⁴ So those having arrived to Jesus were calling upon him earnestly, saying that: He is worthy to whom this [thing] should be granted, ⁵ for he agape-loves our nation and he built for us the synagogue. ⁶ So Jesus went with them. Now when he was already not far from the house, the centurion sent friends saying: Lord, be not troubling, for I am not befitting that you should come under my roof, ⁷ neither am I worthy [that] I come to you, but say [the] word, and my child be healed² . ⁸ For I also am [a] man designated by authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes, and to another, Be coming, and he comes, and to my slave, Do this, and he does [it]. ⁹ But when Jesus heard these [things] he marveled at him, and having turned to the crowd following him he said: Truly I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. ¹⁰ And having returned to the house the [ones] having been sent found the slave being healthy.

Raising a Widow's Son

¹¹ And it next came to pass he went to the city being called Nain, and his disciples and [a] great crowd went with him. ¹² So he drew near to the gate of the city, and behold [the] only-born³ son to his mother was carried out having died, and she was [a] widow, and [a] befitting crowd from the city was with her. ¹³ And seeing her the Lord had compassion on her and said to her: Be not weeping. ¹⁴ And having come he grasped the coffin, so those bearing [it] stood, and he said: Young man, to you I say: be raised. ¹⁵ And the dead [one] sat up, and began to be speaking, and he gave him to his mother. ¹⁶ And fear took [them] all, and they were glorifying God saying that: [a] great prophet has arisen among us, and that God had looked to his people. ¹⁷ And this word went out in all Judea and all the surrounding regions concerning him.

Jesus and John the Baptist

¹⁸ And his disciples reported to John concerning all these [things]. And John having called upon [a] certain two of his disciples ¹⁹ sent [them] to the Lord saying: Are you the coming [one], or do we expect another? ²⁰ Now having arrived to him the men said: John the baptist sent us to you saying: Are you the coming [one], or do we expect another? ²¹ In that hour he healed many from diseases and torments and wicked⁴ spirits, and to many blind he graced to be seeing. ²² And answering he said to them: Having gone report to John what you saw and heard: Blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are preached to, ²³ and blessed is he who is not stumbled in me.

²⁴ Now when the messengers of John had returned he began to be saying to the crowd concerning John: What did you come out to the wilderness to behold? [a] reed being shaken by the wind? ²⁵ But what did you come out to see? [a] man dressed in soft garments? Behold those in splendid and luxurious apparel are in the palaces. ²⁶ But what did you come out to see? [a] prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than [a] prophet. ²⁷ This is he concerning whom it is written⁵:

Behold I send my messenger before your face
Who will prepare your way before you.

²⁸ I say to you, none born of women is greater than John, but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. ²⁹ And all the people having heard and the tax gatherers justified God, having been baptized in John's baptism. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers have set aside the intention of God in themselves, not having been baptized by him.

³¹ To what therefore will I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like? ³² They are like children sitting in the market and they call to each other saying:

We piped for you and you did not dance,
We mourned and you did not weep.

³³ For John the baptist is come not eating loaves nor drinking wine, and you say: He has [a] demon. ³⁴ The son of man is come eating and drinking, and you say: Behold [this] man [is a] glutton and [a] wino, friend of tax gatherers and sinners. ³⁵ And wisdom is justified by all her children.

Jesus's Anointing

³⁶ Now one of the Pharisees was asking¹ him that he eat with him. And having entered into the house of the Pharisee he sat at table. ³⁷ And behold there was in the city [a] certain sinner woman, and having known that he dined in the house of the Pharisee, having brought [an] alabaster flask of perfume ³⁸ and having stood behind by his feet weeping, with the tears she began to rain upon his feet, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping [them] off, and was kissing his feet and anointing [them] with perfume. ³⁹ Now when the Pharisee who invited him saw he said in himself saying: If this [one] was [a] prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman who handles him, that she is [a] sinner. ⁴⁰ And answering Jesus said to him: Simon, I have something to say to you. But he [said]: Teacher, speak, tell. ⁴¹ There were two who owed something to [a] moneylender. The [one] owed five hundred denarii, the other fifty. ⁴² They not having [it] he gave them both grace. Who of them therefore will agape-love him more? ⁴³ Answering, Simon said: I assume that to whom he gave the greater grace. So he said to him: You have answered rightly. ⁴⁴ And having turned to the woman he said to Simon: Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, [and] water for me upon [my] feet is not given; but she with tears rained upon my feet and with her hair wiped them off. ⁴⁵ You have not given me [a] kiss, but she from when I came in was not ceasing to be kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ You have not anointed my head with oil, but she with perfume has anointed my feet, ⁴⁷ for the sake of which, I say to you, her many sins are forgiven, because she agape-loved much. For to whom is forgiven little, agape-loves little. ⁴⁸ So he said to her: Your sins are forgiven. ⁴⁹ And those dining with him began to be saying among themselves: Who is this, who also forgives sins? ⁵⁰ But he said to the woman: Your faith has saved you. Be going in peace.

¹EROTAO (ερωταω) "Ask", but more polite, not demanding/begging as is AITEO. Both AITEO and EROTAO occur in John.16:26.

²imperative

³MONOGENES `mah-noh-gen-AYS" (μoνγενεης ) Literally `only (MONO) + begotten/birthed (GENES)'. GENNAO "gen-AH-oh" (γενναω) is used of `begetting' by the father, and `birthing' by the mother in the Greek literature in general as well as the Septuagint. Thus it refers to the reproductive process as a whole. GENNAO is also used of the special relationship between a Master and his disciples, where no literal begetting or birthing is involved. Since there isn't really an English word that encompasses the whole reproductive cycle, GENNAO is reluctantly translated as 'born' except in those contexts where it would be strange to the English reader to say 'born of a father' or 'begotten by a mother'. MONOGENES appears in: Luke.7:12, Luke.8:42, Luke.9:38, John.1:14, John.1:18, John.3:16, John.3:18, Heb.11:17, 1John.4:9. Luke only uses MONOGENES to refer to 'an only-child'. But see Heb.11:17 where Isaac is referred to as MONOGENES even though he has an older brother Ishmael. Thus it must also mean 'uniquely-born/begotten' and not strictly 'only-child'.

⁴PONEROS (πoνηρoς ) here. The Greek word KAKOS (κακoς ) is always translated `evil', PONEROS is usually translated as `wicked' although occasionally as `bad'; it can also mean 'diseased', 'sickly' and is thus translated where appropriate. Like KAKOS, PONEROS also means `evil', but the harm that evil does is more in view, where KAKOS is more `evil as evil'.

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