Luke 9
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Chapter 9
Jesus sends his 12 apostles to tell God's message
1Jesus asked his 12 apostles to come to him. He gave them power and authority. They could make sick people well. They could also send bad spirits out of people. 2Then he sent them out to tell people about the kingdom of God. He told them that they should also make sick people well again. 3He said to them, ‘Do not take anything for your journey. Do not take a stick, or a bag, or food. Do not take any money. Do not take extra clothes. 4In each town, continue to stay at the first house that you go into. Stay there until you leave that town. 5In some towns, the people will not accept you. You should leave that place. Clean that town's dirt from your feet. Then it will be clear that they have done something wrong.’
6Then the apostles started out. They went to visit all the villages. In every place they told people the good news about Jesus and they made sick people well.
Herod wants to meet Jesus
7People told Herod, the ruler of Galilee, about all the things that were happening. #9:7 This was Herod Antipas. See Luke 3:1. His mind was confused because people were saying lots of different things about Jesus. Some people were saying, ‘John the Baptist died but now he has become alive again.’
8Other people were saying, ‘It is Elijah that has come back.’
Some other people were saying, ‘This is one of God's prophets who lived a long time ago. Now he has become alive again.’ #9:8 Elijah was a prophet who lived about 850 years before Jesus was born. See 2 Kings 1–2.
9Herod said, ‘I sent a soldier to cut off John's head. #9:9 See Mark 6:14-29. So who is this man? I hear many things about him.’ After that, Herod was trying to meet Jesus.
Jesus feeds a crowd of 5,000 men and their families
10The 12 apostles that Jesus had sent out returned. They told him what they had done. Then he took them away from the crowd, so that he could be alone with them. They went to a town called Bethsaida. 11But the crowds realized what had happened. So they went to find Jesus. When he saw the crowds coming, he welcomed them. He taught them about the kingdom of God. Some sick people were there and he made them well again.
12When it was nearly evening, the 12 apostles came to Jesus. They said, ‘There are no houses in this place. Send the crowd away now. Tell them to go to the villages and farms near here. Then they can get food to eat and they can find a place to sleep.’
13Jesus said to them, ‘You should give them some food to eat.’
But the disciples said, ‘We have only five loaves of bread and two fish. Do you want us to go and buy food for all these people?’ 14There were about 5,000 men in the crowd.
Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Tell the people that they should sit down on the ground in groups. There should be about 50 people in each group.’
15So they did this. When the people had sat down, 16Jesus took the five loaves of bread and the two fish. Then he looked up towards heaven and he thanked God for the food. He broke the bread into pieces. He gave the pieces of bread to the disciples, and they gave the bread to the crowd. 17Everybody ate and they all had enough food. They were not hungry any more. Then the disciples picked up the bits of food that people had not eaten. They filled 12 baskets with all the little bits of food.
Peter says that Jesus is the Messiah
18One day, Jesus was alone and he was praying. The disciples came to him. Jesus asked them, ‘When the crowds talk about me, who do they say that I am?’
19They replied, ‘Some people say that you are John the Baptist. Other people say that you are Elijah. And some other people say that you are one of God's prophets from long ago. They think that this prophet has become alive again.’
20Jesus then asked them. ‘But what do you think? Who do you say that I am?’
Peter replied, ‘You are the Messiah. God has sent you.’
21Jesus spoke very strongly to them. He told them that they must not tell anyone about this.
22Then he said, ‘The Son of Man will have to suffer in many ways. The important Jews, the leaders of the priests and the teachers of God's Law will turn against him. People will kill him, but three days later God will cause him to become alive again.’
People who give their lives to serve Jesus have true life
23Then Jesus said to all the people that were there, ‘A person who wants to be my disciple must not think about himself. He must decide that his own life is not important. Every day he must be like someone who carries his own cross to go and die. Then he may come with me as my disciple.
24Whoever wants to keep his own life safe will lose it. But whoever agrees to lose his life because of me will have true life. 25A person may get everything in the whole world for himself. But if he loses his life, it would not be any good for him. He will have destroyed himself in the end. 26You must not be ashamed of me and of my words. If you are, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you. One day he will return and everyone will see his power. He will come with God's holy angels and he will have the bright glory of his Father God. He will be ashamed of you on that day, if you are ashamed of him now.’
Three disciples see how great Jesus is
27Then Jesus said, ‘What I tell you is true. Some people who are standing here will see God begin to rule in his kingdom. They will see that before they die.’
28About eight days after Jesus had said these things, he went up a mountain to pray. He took Peter, John and James with him. 29While Jesus was praying, his face became different to look at. His clothes also became very white. They were shining brightly.
30Then two men appeared and they were talking with Jesus. They were Moses and Elijah. #9:30 Moses was a leader of God's people. He died about 1400 years before Jesus was born. We can read about him in the book of Exodus. 31They were very bright to look at. They talked with Jesus about how he would soon die in Jerusalem. This was how God wanted him to leave this world.
32While this was happening, Peter and his friends were sleeping. Then they woke up and they saw that Jesus was very bright with glory. They also saw the two men who were standing near to him. 33Then the two men began to leave. So Peter said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, it is good that we are here. Please, let us build three huts. One hut will be for you. One hut will be for Moses and one hut will be for Elijah.’ But Peter did not really know what he was saying.
34While Peter was speaking, a cloud appeared. It covered them all. When the cloud came over them, the three disciples were afraid. 35Then a voice spoke from the cloud and it said, ‘This is my Son. He is the one that I have chosen. Listen to him.’
36The voice finished speaking. Then the three disciples saw that only Jesus was there with them now.
They did not tell anyone at that time about what they had seen.
Jesus sends a bad spirit out of a boy
37The next day Jesus came down from the mountain with the three disciples. A large crowd met him. 38A man from the crowd shouted to him. ‘Teacher, please, I ask you to help my son. He is my only child. 39Sometimes a bad spirit takes hold of him and then he screams. The spirit throws his body first one way then another and water comes out of his mouth. The spirit gives him a lot of pain and it does not leave him alone very much. 40I asked your disciples to send the bad spirit out of him. But they could not do it.’
41Jesus said, ‘You people today still do not believe in God. You have turned away from him. I have been with you for a long time and still you do not believe. It is difficult for me to be patient with you.’ Then Jesus said to the man, ‘Bring your son here.’
42While the boy was coming, the bad spirit threw him to the ground. It threw the boy first one way and then the other. Jesus said to it, ‘Stop!’ Then he made the boy well and he gave him back to his father.
43Everybody was very surprised at what they saw. They knew that God was very powerful.
Jesus speaks a second time about his death
The people were very surprised about everything that Jesus was doing. Then Jesus said to his disciples, 44‘Do not forget what I am telling you now. Soon they will put the Son of Man under the power of his enemies.’
45But they did not understand what Jesus had said. Its meaning was a secret to them, so they could not understand. They were afraid to ask Jesus, ‘What do you mean?’
Who is the most important in God's kingdom?
46Then the disciples began to argue with each other. They argued about which of them was the most important. 47Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he took a child and he made him stand there at his side. 48Jesus said, ‘If someone accepts this child because of me, then he also accepts me. And anyone who accepts me also accepts my Father God, who sent me. The person who makes himself the least important among you is really the greatest.’
49John then said, ‘Teacher, we saw a man who was speaking to people who had bad spirits in them. He was saying, “Jesus says that you must come out.” We told the man that he must not do this. We said that because he is not in our group.’
50Jesus said, ‘Do not try to stop him. If someone is not against you, he is working to help you.’
Some people in Samaria do not accept Jesus
51The time came when God would soon take Jesus up to heaven. Jesus knew this, so he began to go towards Jerusalem. 52He arrived near a village in Samaria. #9:52 Samaria was a region of the country of Israel. It had been a name for the Israelite kingdom in the north. In Jesus' time, the people who lived in Samaria were not Jews. He sent some people into the village with a message. They went to ask for a place to stay for the night. 53But the people in the village would not let him stay there. This was because he was going to Jerusalem.
54Then James and John heard about what had happened. They asked Jesus, ‘Master, do you want us to ask God to send fire down from the sky? Do you want us to kill these people?’
55Jesus turned round. He said, ‘No! Do not do that. It would be wrong.’ 56Then they all went on to another village.
It is difficult to be a disciple of Jesus
57They continued on their journey. A man came and said to Jesus, ‘I will go with you. And I will go with you everywhere that you go.’
58Jesus replied, ‘Wild animals and birds have their own places to live. But I, the Son of Man, have no place of my own to lie down and rest.’
59Then Jesus said to another man, ‘Come with me!’
The man replied, ‘First let me go home and bury my father. Then I will come with you.’
60Jesus said, ‘No! Let people who are dead themselves bury their own dead people. You should go and tell people about the kingdom of God.’ #9:60 The man wanted to wait until his father had died. Then he would go with Jesus. Jesus did not agree. He called people that did not obey him ‘dead’. Those people could bury someone who had died.
61Another man said, ‘Sir, I will come with you. But please let me first go home to say “Goodbye” to my family.’
62Jesus replied, ‘A man that ploughs a field must continue to look straight in front of him. If he looks behind him, he cannot plough well. People that look back behind them cannot work well for the kingdom of God.’
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