(Tap footnote to read it. Old Testament quotations are underlined. "Love" with a caret ("^love") is agapé.1"agapé" The Greek words ἀγάπη (agapé, noun), and ἀγαπάω (agapaó; verb) are typically translated "love". However, unlike our English word "love" – which primarily speaks of affection and feelings – agapé centers on choice and behavior. It’s the "love" based on will, choice, behavior, and action; not feelings. (Feelings-based love is the Greek word φιλέω (phileó), which properly means "brotherly love/affection".) Thus, you could hate someone passionately and still treat him with "agapé". Agapé "love" is best understood as the pursuit of what is most beneficial to someone or something, regardless of the cost to yourself or the type of response received from the person or thing. It can also indicate a preference for someone or something over other things. )
Millstones, faith, and forgiveness
- And He said to His disciples: “It’s impossible for baits that ensnare1 “baits that ensnare” is a single word in the Greek. It specifically refers to a “bait stick”, meaning the trigger stick of a trap or snare to which the bait is attached. Think of the part of a mouse trap to which you affix the cheese. On reaching for the bait, the “bait stick” triggers the trap and ensnares the unsuspecting victim. It can also refer to offending someone or to someone stumbling. not to come, nevertheless, woe to him through whom they come.
- “It would be better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he’s *hurled into the sea than that he would ensnare one of these little ones.
- “Beware for yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.
- “And if he sins against you seven times a day, and seven times he turns to you, saying: “I repent.”, you shall forgive him.”
- And the apostles said to the Lord: “Add this faith to us.”
- And the Lord said: “If you have faith like a mustard seed and were saying to this mulberry tree: ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea.’, it also would have obeyed you.
- “And which of you — having a slave who enters in from the field after plowing or shepherding — will tell him: “Come recline at the table immediately.“?
- “But won’t he certainly tell him: “Prepare something that I might eat, and gird yourself2“gird yourself” This is a cultural reference, referring to the process of tying a belt or rope around the waist to gather their long robes and prevent them from getting in the way of work. It figuratively came to mean getting ready for action or work. and serve me while I eat and drink. And after these things, you will eat and drink.”?
- “Doesn’t he have gratitude for the slave because he did the things which were commanded?
- “In this way you also, when you do all the things commanded to you, you say: “We are unworthy slaves; we *did what we were obligated to do.”.”
Healing ten lepers
- And it happened during His travel to Jerusalem, He was also passing through the middle of Samaria and Galilee.
- And upon Him entering into a village, ten leprous men who stood far away from Him met Him.
- And they raised their voice, saying: “Jesus! Master! Have mercy on us!”
- And having seen them, He told them: “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened during their departing that they were cleansed.
- And having seen that he was cured, one of them returned, glorifying God with a loud voice.
- And he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him; and he was a Samaritan.
- And answering, Jesus said: “Weren’t all ten certainly cleansed? But where are the other nine?”
- “Were none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
- And He told him: “Rise and go; your faith has saved you.”
The coming of the kingdom
- And having been questioned by the Pharisees about when the kingdom of God is coming, He answered them and said: “The kingdom of God isn’t coming with meticulous scrutiny.
- “Nor will they say; “Behold, it’s here!” or “It’s there!”. For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
- And He said to the disciples: “Days will come when you will yearn to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you won’t see it.
- “And they will tell you: “Behold, it’s here!” or “Behold, it’s there!”. Don’t leave or follow them.
- “For just like lightning flashing from one part of the sky illuminates even to the rest of the sky, the Son of Man will be like this in His day.
- “But first, it’s necessary for Him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
- “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, it will also be this way in the days of the Son of Man.
- “They were eating, were drinking, were marrying, and their daughters were being given in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and it destroyed all of them.
- “Similarly, just as it happened in the days of Lot, they were eating, were drinking, were buying, were selling, were planting, and were building.
- “And on that day Lot departed from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed all of them.
- “It will be like these events on that day when the Son of Man is revealed.
- “On that day, a man who will be on a rooftop and his goods in the house must not come down to carry them out. And similarly, the man in a field must not turn to get the things he left behind.
- “Remember the wife of Lot.
- “Whoever seeks to preserve his life will destroy it; but whoever destroys his life will preserve it.
- “I tell you that on that night, there will be two men on one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.
- “There will be two women grinding at the same mill; one will be taken and the other will be left.
- [“There will be two men in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”]
- And answering, they say to Him: “Lord, where?” And He told them: “Where the body is, the vultures will be gathered there also.”
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