LUKAS 13
Bekeer julle
1 Juis in daardie tyd het mense vir Jesus kom vertel van die Galileërs vir wie Pilatus laat doodmaak het waar hulle besig was om hulle offerdiere te slag. 2 Toe antwoord Jesus hulle: “Dink julle dat hierdie Galileërs groter sondaars was as al die ander Galileërs omdat dit met hulle gebeur het? 3 Nee, sê Ek vir julle, maar as julle julle nie bekeer nie, sal julle net soos hulle ook almal omkom! 4 Of daardie agtien wat dood is toe die toring van Siloam op hulle ineengestort het, dink julle dat hulle skuldiger was as al die ander inwoners van Jerusalem? 5 Nee, sê Ek vir julle, maar as julle julle nie bekeer nie, sal julle net soos hulle ook almal omkom.”
Gelykenis van die onvrugbare vyeboom
6 Daarna het Hy hierdie gelykenis vertel: “'n Man het 'n vyeboom gehad wat in sy wingerd geplant was. Toe hy vrugte daaraan kom soek maar niks kry nie, 7 sê hy vir die tuinier: ‘Kyk, dis nou drie jaar dat ek aan hierdie vyeboom vrugte kom soek, en ek kry niks nie. Kap hom uit! Waarom moet hy langer die grond uitput?’ 8 Maar die tuinier antwoord: Meneer, laat hom nog hierdie jaar staan. Ek sal die grond rondom hom omspit en bemes. 9 Miskien sal hy dan volgende jaar vrugte dra. Maar so nie, kan u hom uitkap.”
Jesus genees 'n gebreklike vrou op die sabbatdag
10 Eenkeer op 'n sabbatdag was Jesus in een van die sinagoges besig om die mense te leer. 11 Daar was ook 'n vrou wat al agtien jaar lank gely het onder 'n bose gees wat haar heeltemal verswak het. Sy was krom getrek en kon glad nie meer regop kom nie. 12 Toe Jesus haar sien, roep Hy haar nader en sê vir haar: “Mevrou, jy is van jou gebrek verlos!”
13 Toe het Hy haar die hande opgelê, en sy het onmiddellik regop gestaan en God begin prys.
14 Die hoof van die sinagoge was verontwaardig omdat Jesus op die sabbatdag iemand gesond gemaak het. Hy sê toe vir die mense: “Daar is ses dae in die week waarop 'n mens moet werk. Julle moet op een van daardie dae kom om julle te laat gesond maak, nie op die sabbatdag nie.”
15 Toe sê die Here vir hom: “Julle huigelaars! Maak elkeen van julle nie op die sabbatdag sy bees of sy donkie van die krip los en lei hom weg om hom te laat suip nie? 16 En hier is 'n vrou, 'n kind van Abraham, wat werklik al agtien jaar lank deur die Satan gebind is. Mag sy dan nie op die sabbatdag van hierdie band losgemaak word nie?”
17 Deur dit te sê, het Jesus al sy teenstanders laat skaam kry, maar die hele skare was bly oor al die wonderbaarlike dinge wat Hy gedoen het.
Die gelykenisse van die mosterdsaadjie en die suurdeeg
(Matt. 13:31-33; Mark. 4:30-32)
18 Jesus het gesê: “Hoe is die koninkryk van God? Waarmee kan Ek dit vergelyk? 19 Dit is soos 'n mosterdsaadjie wat iemand gevat en in sy tuin geplant het. Dit het gegroei en 'n boom geword, en die voëls het in sy takke kom nes maak.”
20 Verder het Hy gesê: “Waarmee kan Ek die koninkryk van God vergelyk? 21 Dit is soos suurdeeg wat 'n vrou geneem en in twintig kilogram meel ingewerk het totdat dit heeltemal deursuur was.”
Die smal deur
(Matt. 7:13-14,21-23)
22 Terwyl Jesus op pad was Jerusalem toe, het Hy deur stede en dorpe gegaan en oral die mense geleer. 23 Toe vra iemand Hom: “Here, is dié wat gered word, maar min?”
24 Hy sê vir hulle: “Span al julle kragte in om by die smal deur in te gaan. Baie, verseker Ek julle, sal probeer om in te gaan, maar sal dit nie regkry nie.
25 “As die eienaar van die huis eers opgestaan en die deur toegesluit het, sal julle buite staan en aan die deur begin klop en roep: ‘Here, maak vir ons oop!’ Maar Hy sal julle antwoord: ‘Ek weet nie waar julle vandaan kom nie.’ 26 Dan sal julle sê: ‘Ons het saam met U geëet en gedrink, en op ons strate het U die mense geleer.’ 27 Maar Hy sal weer vir julle sê: ‘Ek weet nie waar julle vandaan kom nie. Niemand van julle het gedoen wat reg is nie. Maak dat julle van My af wegkom!’
28 “Daar sal julle huil en op julle tande kners wanneer julle Abraham en Isak en Jakob en al die profete binne-in die koninkryk van God sal sien, terwyl julle self buitentoe weggejaag word.
29 “Daar sal mense uit die ooste en die weste kom, uit die noorde en die suide, en aansit by die feesmaal in die koninkryk van God. 30 Onthou net: Daar is laastes wat eerste sal wees, en eerstes wat laaste sal wees.”
Klag oor Jerusalem
(Matt. 23:37-39)
31 Op daardie selfde oomblik het 'n aantal Fariseërs vir Jesus kom sê: “U moet padgee en na 'n ander plek toe gaan, want Herodes wil u doodmaak.”
32 Maar Hy sê vir hulle: “Gaan sê vir daardie jakkals: ‘Kyk, vandag en môre dryf Ek nog bose geeste uit en maak Ek mense gesond, maar op die derde dag sal Ek my werk klaar maak.’ 33 In elk geval moet Ek vandag en môre en oormôre die reis voortsit, want dit is ondenkbaar dat 'n profeet op 'n ander plek as Jerusalem omkom.
34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Jy wat die profete doodmaak en die boodskappers stenig wat na jou toe gestuur is, hoe dikwels wou Ek jou kinders bymekaarmaak soos 'n hen haar kuikens onder haar vlerke, maar julle wou nie! 35 Kyk, nou word julle stad aan julleself oorgelaat. Maar Ek sê vir julle: Julle sal My sekerlik nie sien nie totdat die dag kom wanneer julle sal uitroep: Loof Hom wat in die Naam van die Here kom!t”
Luke 13
1 JUST AT that time there [arrived] some people who informed Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.2 And He replied by saying to them, Do you think that these Galileans were greater sinners than all the other Galileans because they have suffered in this way?3 I tell you, No; but unless you repent (change your mind for the better and heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins), you will all likewise perish and be lost eternally.4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them--do you think that they were more guilty offenders (debtors) than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem?5 I tell you, No; but unless you repent (change your mind for the better and heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins), you will all likewise perish and be lost eternally.6 And He told them this parable: A certain man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, but did not find [any].7 So he said to the vinedresser, See here! For these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue also to use up the ground [to deplete the soil, intercept the sun, and take up room]?8 But he replied to him, Leave it alone, sir, [just] this one more year, till I dig around it and put manure [on the soil].9 Then perhaps it will bear fruit after this; but if not, you can cut it down and out.10 Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.11 And there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit (a demon of sickness). She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or to look upward.12 And when Jesus saw her, He called [her to Him] and said to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity!13 Then He laid [His] hands on her, and instantly she was made straight, and she recognized and thanked and praised God.14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, There are six days on which work ought to be done; so come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day. 15 But the Lord replied to him, saying, You playactors (hypocrites)! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it out to water it?16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?17 Even as He said this, all His opponents were put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.18 This led Him to say, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds found shelter and roosted and nested in its branches.20 And again He said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?21 It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of wheat flour or meal until it was all leavened (fermented).22 [Jesus] journeyed on through towns and villages, teaching, and making His way toward Jerusalem.23 And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them,24 Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.25 When once the Master of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door [again and again], saying, Lord, open to us! He will answer you, I do not know where [what household--certainly not Mine] you come from.26 Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.27 But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where [what household--certainly not Mine] you come from; depart from Me, all you wrongdoers!28 There will be weeping and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being cast forth (banished, driven away).29 And [people] will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit down (feast at table) in the kingdom of God.30 And behold, there are some [now] last who will be first [then], and there are some [now] first who will be last [then].31 At that very hour some Pharisees came up and said to Him, Go away from here, for Herod is determined to kill You.32 And He said to them, Go and tell that fox [sly and crafty, skulking and cowardly], Behold, I drive out demons and perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish (complete) My course.33 Nevertheless, I must continue on My way today and tomorrow and the day after that--for it will never do for a prophet to be destroyed away from Jerusalem!34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who continue to kill the prophets and to stone those who are sent to you! How often I have desired and yearned to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen [gathers] her young under her wings, but you would not!35 Behold, your house is forsaken (abandoned, left to you destitute of God’s help)! And I tell you, you will not see Me again until the time comes when you shall say, Blessed (to be celebrated with praises) is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!