﻿Luke.
Chapter 6.
On a Sabbath Jesus was walking through grainfields. His disciples were plucking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating. 
Some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 
Jesus answered them, “Have you not even read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? 
How he entered the house of God, took and ate the bread of the Presence, and gave some to those with him, although only the priests are permitted to eat it?” 
He said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” 
On another Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was withered. 
The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so they could find grounds to accuse him. 
But he knew their thoughts and said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and stand in the middle.” He got up and stood there. 
Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?” 
After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored. 
But they were filled with rage and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus. 
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. 
When day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: 
Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 
Matthew and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 
Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 
He came down with them and stood on a level place. There was a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon, 
who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by unclean spirits were also being healed. 
The whole crowd tried to touch him, because power was going out from him and healing them all. 
He looked up at his disciples and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 
Blessed are you when people hate you, exclude you, insult you, and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man. 
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for your reward is great in heaven. That is how their fathers treated the prophets. 
But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort. 
Woe to you who are full now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 
Woe when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets. 
But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; 
bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat you. 
If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 
Give to everyone who asks you, and if someone takes what is yours, do not demand it back. 
As you want people to do to you, do the same to them. 
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. 
If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to receive the same amount back. 
But love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting anything in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. 
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 
Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour a good measure into your lap—pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing. For the measure you use will be measured back to you.” 
He also told them a parable: “Can a blind person lead a blind person? Will they not both fall into a pit? 
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. 
Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the beam in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. 
For no good tree bears rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. 
Each tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs from thorns or harvest grapes from a bramble. 
A good person brings forth good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person brings forth evil from the evil treasure. For his mouth speaks from the abundance of his heart. 
Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 
Everyone who comes to me, hears my words, and does them—I will show you what he is like. 
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood came, the river crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built. 
But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.” 
