The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 7
{7:1} After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people,
he entered into Kafar-Nachum. {7:2} A certain centurion's servant, who
was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. {7:3} When he
heard about Yeshua, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to
come and save his servant. {7:4} When they came to Yeshua, they begged
him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him, {7:5}
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us." {7:6}
Yeshua went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the
centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble
yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. {7:7}
Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say
the word, and my servant will be healed. {7:8} For I also am a man
placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,
'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my
servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
{7:9} When Yeshua heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned
and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not
found such great faith, no, not in Yisra'el." {7:10} Those who were
sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick
was well.
{7:11} It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called
Na`im. Many of his [1>]talmidim[<1], along with a great multitude,
went with him. {7:12} Now when he drew near to the gate of the city,
behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother,
and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. {7:13}
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her,
"Don't cry." {7:14} He came near and touched the coffin, and the
bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!" {7:15}
He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his
mother.
{7:16} Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A
great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"
{7:17} This report went out concerning him in the whole of Yehudah,
and in all the surrounding region.
{7:18} The [2>]talmidim[<2] of Yochanan told him about all these
things. {7:19} Yochanan, calling to himself two of his
[3>]talmidim[<3], sent them to Yeshua, saying, "Are you the one who is
coming, or should we look for another?" {7:20} When the men had come
to him, they said, "Yochanan the immerser has sent us to you, saying,
'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"
{7:21} In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil
spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. {7:22} Yeshua
answered them, "Go and tell Yochanan the things which you have seen
and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the
poor have good news preached to them. {7:23} Blessed is he who is not
offended by me."
{7:24} When Yochanan's messengers had departed, he began to tell the
multitudes about Yochanan, "What did you go out into the wilderness to
see? A reed shaken by the wind? {7:25} But what did you go out to see?
A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously
dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. {7:26} But what
did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than
a prophet. {7:27} This is he of whom it is written,
'Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
Who will prepare your way before you.'
{7:28} "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is
not a greater prophet than Yochanan the immerser, yet he who is least
in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."
{7:29} When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they
declared God to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan's
immersion. {7:30} But the Perushim and the lawyers rejected the
counsel of God, not being immersed by him themselves.
{7:31} But the Lord said, "To what then will I liken the people of
this generation? What are they like? {7:32} They are like children who
sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to
you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.' {7:33}
For Yochanan the immerser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine,
and you say, 'He has a demon.' {7:34} The Son of Man has come eating
and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard;
a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' {7:35} Wisdom is justified by
all her children."
{7:36} One of the Perushim invited him to eat with him. He entered
into the Parush's house, and sat at the table. {7:37} Behold, a woman
in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in
the Parush's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. {7:38}
Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with
her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his
feet, and anointed them with the ointment. {7:39} Now when the Parush
who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were
a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who
touches him, that she is a sinner."
{7:40} Yeshua answered him, "Shim`on, I have something to tell you."
He said, "Rabbi, say on."
{7:41} "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred
denarii, and the other fifty. {7:42} When they couldn't pay, he
forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
{7:43} Shim`on answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the
most."
He said to him, "You have judged correctly." {7:44} Turning to the
woman, he said to Shim`on, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your
house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet
with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. {7:45} You
gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to
kiss my feet. {7:46} You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has
anointed my feet with ointment. {7:47} Therefore I tell you, her sins,
which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little
is forgiven, the same loves little." {7:48} He said to her, "Your sins
are forgiven."
{7:49} Those who sat at the table with him began to say to
themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
{7:50} He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:11} disciples
[2] {7:18} disciples
[3] {7:19} disciples
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