89 lines
5.0 KiB
TeX
89 lines
5.0 KiB
TeX
\subsection{Matthew 18}
|
|
\subsubsection{Questions About the Greatest}
|
|
\VS{1} In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying: Who then is greater in the
|
|
kingdom of the heavens?
|
|
\VS{2} And when he called [a] child he stood him in their midst
|
|
\VS{3} and said: Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become
|
|
as the child, you will not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
|
|
\VS{4} Whoever therefore humbles himself as this child, this is the greater in the
|
|
kingdom of the heavens.
|
|
\VS{5} And whoever receives [one] such child in my name
|
|
receives me.
|
|
|
|
\VS{6} but whoever causes one of these little [ones] believing
|
|
in me to stumble, it is better for him that [a] millstone be hung around his
|
|
neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.
|
|
\VS{7} Woe to the world
|
|
because of those\footnote{can also mean ``those things"} causing stumbling.
|
|
It is necessary for stumbling to come, nevertheless woe to the man through
|
|
whom comes the stumbling.
|
|
\VS{8} But if your hand or your foot causes you to
|
|
stumble, cut it off and throw [it] from you. It is better for you to enter into
|
|
zoe-life\fnZoe{} crippled or deformed than having two hands or two feet to be thrown
|
|
into the eternal fire.
|
|
\VS{9} And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it
|
|
out and throw [it] from you. It is better for you to enter into zoe-life\fnZoe{} one-eyed
|
|
than having two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire\fnGehenna{}.
|
|
|
|
\subsubsection{Parable of the Lost Sheep}
|
|
\VS{10} Be seeing that you do not despise one of these little [ones], For I say to you that their angels in [the] heavens always see the face of my father in the heavens.
|
|
\VS{11} For the son of man came to save the lost.\footnote{vs. 11:
|
|
DW \koine{} \vulgate{} few; omit vs. 11: \sinaiticus{}B}
|
|
|
|
\VS{12} How does it seem to you? If it
|
|
should come to pass to [a] certain man one hundred sheep and one of them gone
|
|
astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and having gone
|
|
seek the [one] gone astray?
|
|
\VS{13} And if it come to pass he finds it, truly I
|
|
say to you that he rejoices upon it more than upon the ninety-nine that had
|
|
not gone astray.
|
|
\VS{14} Thus it is not [a] wish before your father in the
|
|
heavens that [one] of these little [ones] be lost\fnApollumi{}.
|
|
|
|
\subsubsection{Restoring Relationships}
|
|
\VS{15} But if your brother sins, go tell him between you and
|
|
him only. If he hears you, you have won your brother.
|
|
\VS{16} But if he not hear you, take along with you yet one or two, that on [the] mouth of two or three testifiers might stand every word.
|
|
\VS{17} But if he
|
|
not hear them, speak to the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}. And if he refuse to hear the
|
|
assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, he must be to you as the gentile and the tax-gatherer.
|
|
|
|
\VS{18} Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on the earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on the earth will have been loosed in heaven.
|
|
\VS{19} Again I truly say to you that if two among you be in agreement on the earth
|
|
concerning any matter that they ask, it will come to pass from my
|
|
father in [the] heavens.
|
|
\VS{20} For when two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in their midst.
|
|
|
|
\VS{21} Then Peter having come he said to him: Lord, how often will my
|
|
brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven?
|
|
\VS{22} Jesus says to him: I do not say to you until seven, but
|
|
until seventy times seven.
|
|
|
|
\subsubsection{The Parable of the Unforgiving Slave}
|
|
\VS{23} Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is like to [a] man [who is] king, who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.
|
|
\VS{24} So when he began to be
|
|
settling [them], there was brought to him [a] debtor of [a] thousand talents.
|
|
\VS{25} And not having [them] to pay, the lord ordered him to be sold and his wife and his children and all that he has for payment.
|
|
\VS{26} The slave therefore falling down knelt before him saying: Be patient with me,
|
|
and I will pay all to you.
|
|
\VS{27} And the lord having compassion on this slave loosed him, and allowed him
|
|
the loan.
|
|
\VS{28} So when that slave went out he
|
|
found one of his fellow-slaves, which owed him [a] hundred denari, and laying
|
|
hold he was choking him saying: Pay what you owe!
|
|
\VS{29} Falling down therefore his fellow-slave knelt before him saying: Be patient
|
|
with me and I will pay you.
|
|
\VS{30} But he did not wish to, but having departed, threw him into prison until he pay the debt.
|
|
\VS{31} His fellow-slaves therefore
|
|
seeing what came to pass were greatly troubled, and having come, reported to
|
|
their lord all that came to pass.
|
|
\VS{32} Then when his lord called him he
|
|
said to him: Wicked\fnPoneros{} slave, all this debt I allowed you because you called
|
|
upon me.
|
|
\VS{33} Mustn't you also have mercy on your fellow-slave as I
|
|
also had mercy on you?
|
|
\VS{34} And having been angered, his lord gave him
|
|
over to the torturer\footnote{or ``jailer''. Jailors at that time were also responsible for torturing.} until he pay all his debt to him.
|
|
\VS{35} Thus also your heavenly father will do to you, if you do not forgive
|
|
each of your brothers from your heart.
|