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Luke 14:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

One Sabbath, Jesus was having dinner in the home of an important Pharisee, and everyone was carefully watching Jesus.

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The wicked try to trap and kill good people,

When visitors come, all they ever bring are worthless words, and when they leave, they spread gossip.

You want to bring me down from my place of honour. You love to tell lies, and when your words are kind, hatred hides in your heart.

People like that take note of how much you eat. They say, “Take all you want!” But they don't mean it.

People are worth much more than sheep, and so it is right to do good on the Sabbath.”

The Pharisees wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong, and they kept watching to see if Jesus would heal him on the Sabbath.

When Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him home for a meal. Jesus went and sat down to eat.

All of a sudden a man with swollen legs stood up in front of him.

Some Pharisees asked Jesus when God's kingdom would come. He answered, “God's kingdom isn't something you can see.

Jesus' enemies kept watching him closely, because they wanted to hand him over to the Roman governor. So they sent some men who pretended to be good. But they were really spies trying to catch Jesus saying something wrong.

Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses kept watching Jesus to see if he would heal the man. They did this because they wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong.

There was a man named Nicodemus who was a Pharisee and a Jewish leader.

But one of the members was the Pharisee Gamaliel, a highly respected teacher. He ordered the apostles to be taken out of the room for a little while.




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