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The Gospel of Luke 9

9 Then Jesus called together the Twelve Representatives and gave them the right and power to drive out all kinds of demons and to heal people’s diseases. 2 He sent them out to announce the good news about how God would rule as king. He told them to heal people who were sick. 3 Before they left, he said to them, “Do not take anything with you for your journey. Do not take a walking stick or a traveler’s bag or food or money. Do not bring an extra tunic. 4 Whatever house you enter, stay in that house until you leave that area. 5 If the people in any town do not welcome you, you should not stay there. Instead, leave that town and, as you go, shake its dust off your feet. That will be a warning to them for rejecting you.” 6 Then Jesus’ disciples left and traveled through many villages. Everywhere they went, they talked to people about the good news from God, and they healed sick people.

7 Herod, the ruler over the district of Galilee, heard about everything that was happening, and he was perplexed. Some people were saying that John the Baptizer had become alive again. 8 Other people were saying that the prophet Elijah had appeared again. Still others were saying that one of the other prophets from long ago had become alive again. 9 But Herod said, “It cannot be John, because I had his head cut off. So who is this man? I keep hearing such amazing things about him!” And he kept looking for a way to see Jesus.

10 When the Representatives returned from their trip, they told Jesus everything that they had done. Then he took them aside to go by themselves with him to the town of Bethsaida. 11 But when the crowds learned where Jesus had gone, they followed him there. He welcomed them and spoke to them about how God was going to rule as king. He also healed those who were sick.

12 Now it was getting late in the day, so the Twelve Representatives came to him and said, “Please send this large crowd of people away so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms to get some food and find places to stay, since we are out here in this isolated place.” 13 But he said to them, “You must give them something to eat!” They replied, “All we have are five small loaves of bread and two small fish. We could never go buy enough food for all these people!” 14 They said this because there were about 5000 men there. Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have the people sit down in groups. Put about 50 people in each group.” 15 So the disciples did that, and the people all sat down. 16 Then Jesus took the five loaves of bread and the two fish. He looked up toward heaven and praised God for them. Then he divided the bread and fish into pieces and gave them to the disciples for them to distribute to the people. 17 They all ate, and everyone had enough to eat. Then the disciples collected the leftover pieces of food, which filled 12 baskets!

18 One day while Jesus was praying in private, with his disciples nearby, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19 They replied, “Some people say that you are John the Baptizer, but others say that you are the prophet Elijah, and still others say that you are one of the other prophets from long ago who has come back to life again.” 20 He asked them, “What about you? Who do you say that I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah, who has come from God.” 21 Then Jesus warned them strongly not to tell that to anyone yet. 22 Then he said, “I, the Son of Man, must suffer many things: The elders, chief priests, and teachers of the Jewish laws will reject me and kill me. Then, on the third day after that, I will come back to life again.”

23 Then he said to them all, “If any one of you wants to be my disciple, you must not do only what you want to do. Rather, every day you must be willing to suffer, even to the point of giving up your life. That is how to be my disciple. 24 You must do that because those who try to save their own lives will lose them eternally, but those who give up their lives in order to become my disciples will save their lives eternally. 25 After all, how does it benefit you if you gain everything in this world but you then end up losing, or even destroying, your own self? 26 Suppose someone is afraid to say that they believe in me and that they follow my teaching. Then, I, the Son of Man, will say that such a person does not belong to me. This will happen when I come back in my glory and in the glory of God the Father and of the holy angels. 27 But you can be sure of this: Some of you who are standing here now will not die until you see God ruling as king!”

28 About eight days after Jesus said those things, he took Peter, John, and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray there. 29 While he was praying, the appearance of his face became very different, and his clothes began to shine brightly. 30 All at once, two prophets from long ago were there talking with Jesus. They were Moses and Elijah. 31 These men appeared surrounded in glory. They spoke with Jesus about how he was going to die. This was something that was going to happen soon in Jerusalem. 32 Peter and the other disciples who were with him were very sleepy. But when they woke up fully, they saw how brightly Jesus was shining. They also saw Moses and Elijah standing with him. 33 As Moses and Elijah were starting to leave Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here! We should make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah!” But he really did not realize what he was saying. 34 As he was saying these things, a cloud formed and covered them. The disciples were afraid as the cloud surrounded them. 35 God’s voice spoke to them from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him!” 36 When the voice had finished speaking, the three disciples saw that only Jesus was there. They kept all this to themselves. For a long time they did not tell anyone what they had seen.

37 The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd of people met Jesus. 38 Suddenly a man from the crowd called out, “Teacher, I plead with you, do something to help my son! He is my only child. 39 Here is what is happening. An evil spirit suddenly seizes him and causes him to scream. It shakes him violently and causes him to foam at the mouth. This spirit hardly ever leaves my child and, when it does, it injures him severely. 40 I pleaded with your disciples to command the evil spirit to come out of him, but they were not able to do it!” 41 In response, Jesus said, “This generation of people does not believe, and so its thinking is corrupt! How much longer must I be with you before you believe?” Then he said to the boy’s father, “Bring your son here to me!” 42 While they were bringing the boy to him, the demon threw the boy down to the ground and shook him severely. But Jesus rebuked the evil spirit and healed the boy. Then he returned him to his father. 43 Then all the people there were completely amazed at the great power God had shown.

While they were all still marveling at all the miracles Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples, 44 “Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you, because someone will soon hand me, the Son of Man, over to my enemies.” 45 But the disciples did not understand what he meant by this. God prevented them from understanding it so that they would not know yet what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him about what he had said.

46 Sometime later, the disciples began to argue among themselves about which one of them would be the most important. 47 But Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he brought a young child over and had the child stand beside him. 48 He said to them, “If someone welcomes a little child like this one because of me, it is the same as welcoming me. And if someone welcomes me, it is the same as welcoming God, who sent me. Remember that those among you who seem to be the least important are the ones whom God considers to be most important.”

49 John replied to Jesus, “Master, we saw a man who was using your name to command demons to come out of people. But we told him to stop doing that, because he was not working closely with you the way we are.” 50 But Jesus told John, “Do not stop him from doing that! If someone is not doing something that is harmful to you, then what he is doing is helpful to you!”

51 When it was getting close to the time when God would take him back up to heaven, Jesus firmly resolved to go to Jerusalem. 52 He sent some messengers ahead of him. They traveled on and went into a village in the region of Samaria to try to arrange for him to stay there. 53 But the Samaritans would not let Jesus stay in their village, because he was on his way to Jerusalem. 54 Two of his disciples, James and John, got angry when they saw that the Samaritans were not going to welcome them. So they asked Jesus, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and destroy these people?” 55 But Jesus turned to them and sternly told them they were wrong to say that. 56 So they went to a different village.

57 As Jesus and the disciples were walking along the road, someone said to him, “I will go with you wherever you go!” 58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes in the ground to live in, and birds have nests, but I, the Son of Man, do not have a home to sleep in!” 59 Jesus said to a different person, “Come with me!” But that person said, “Lord, let me first go home and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. I want you to go and tell people everywhere that they can have God rule their lives.” 61 Someone else said, “Lord, I will come with you and be your disciple, but first let me go home to say goodbye to my family.” 62 Jesus said to him, “Anyone who is like a farmer who tries to plow his field while looking behind him is not able to serve God as his ruler.”

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