Luke 9:34-62 ▼

34 and as he was speaking these things, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them, and they feared in their entering into the cloud,

35 and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved; hear Him”;

36 and when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone; and they were silent, and declared to no one in those days anything of what they have seen.

37 And it came to pass on the next day, they having come down from the mountain, a great multitude met Him there,

38 and behold, a man from the multitude cried out, saying, “Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, because he is my only begotten;

39 and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it convulses him, with foaming, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him,

40 and I implored Your disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.”

41 And Jesus answering said, “O generation, unsteadfast and perverse, until when will I be with you, and endure you? Bring your son near here”;

42 and as he is yet coming near, the demon threw him down, and convulsed [him], and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.

43 And they were all amazed at the greatness of God, and while all are wondering at all things that Jesus did, He said to His disciples,

44 “Lay to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men.”

45 And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.

46 And there entered a reasoning among them, this—who may be greater of them.

47 And Jesus having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a child, set him beside Him,

48 and said to them, “Whoever may receive this child in My Name, receives Me, and whoever may receive Me, receives Him who sent Me, for he who is least among you all—he will be great.”

49 And John answering said, “Master, we saw a certain one casting forth the demons in Your Name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us”;

50 and Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid, for he who is not against us, is for us.”

51 And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of His being taken up, that He fixed His face to go on to Jerusalem,

52 and He sent messengers before His face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for Him,

53 and they did not receive Him, because His face was going on to Jerusalem.

54 And His disciples James and John having seen, said, “Lord, will You [that] we may command fire to come down from Heaven, and to consume them, as Elijah also did?”

55 And having turned, He rebuked them and said, “You have not known of what spirit you are,

56 for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save”; and they went on to another village.

57 And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You may go, Lord”;

58 and Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky places of rest, but the Son of Man has nowhere He may recline the head.”

59 And He said to another, “Follow Me”; and he said, “Lord, permit me, having gone away, to first bury my father”;

60 and Jesus said to him, “Permit the dead to bury their own dead, and you, having gone away, publish the Kingdom of God.”

61 And another also said, “I will follow You, Lord, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house”;

62 and Jesus said to him, “No one having put his hand on a plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”