Luke 14
1 One (Jewish day of rest/Sabbath day), Jesus went to eat [SYN] at the house of an important Pharisee. Some [men who studied the Jewish] laws and other Pharisees who were there were watching him carefully [to see if he would do something for which they could accuse him].
| یک روز شَبّات، عیسی در خانه یکی از بزرگان فریسی دعوت داشت. و آنها او را به دقت زیر نظر داشتند. |
2 Unexpectedly, there was a man in front of Jesus whose arms and legs were swollen.
| در آنجا بیماری نیز حضور داشت که بدنش آب آورده و دستها و پاهایش متورم شده بود. |
3 Jesus said to them, “Is it permitted in [our(inc)] Jewish laws to heal [someone] (on our Jewish rest day/on the Sabbath), or not?”
| عیسی از فریسیان و علمای دین که در آنجا حضور داشتند، پرسید: «آیا طبق دستورهای تورات، می‌توان بیماری را در روز شَبّات شفا داد یا نه؟» |
4 [They knew that their laws permitted it, but they thought that healing was work, which they thought was wrong to do] (on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day) (OR, [they knew that their laws permitted it, but they did not want to admit it]). So they did not reply. Then Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him to go [home].
| ایشان پاسخی ندادند! پس عیسی بر آن بیمار دست نهاد و شفایش داد و به خانه فرستاد. |
5 Then he said to the rest of them, “If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on a (Sabbath/our day of rest), would you immediately [work to] pull him out, [or would you(sg) let him stay there until the next day]?”
| سپس رو به ایشان کرد و پرسید: «کدام یک از شما، در روز شَبّات کار نمی‌کند؟ آیا اگر الاغ یا گاوتان در چاه بیفتد، بی‌درنگ نمی‌روید تا بیرونش بیاورید؟» |
6 [They knew that they would immediately work to pull him out, even on their day of rest, so they could not justly say that Jesus did wrong by healing the man on that day. So] they said nothing in reply to Jesus.
| اما ایشان جوابی نداشتند که بدهند. |
7 Jesus noticed that those people who had been {whom [the Pharisee] had} invited [to the meal] chose [to sit in] the places where important [people usually sit]. Then he gave [this advice] to them:
| عیسی چون دید که همهٔ مهمانان سعی می‌کنند بالای مجلس بنشینند، ایشان را چنین نصیحت کرد: |
8 “When one of you [(sg)] is invited by someone {someone invites one of you [(sg)]} to a wedding feast, do not sit in a place where important people sit. Perhaps the man [giving the feast] has invited a man more important than you [(sg)].
| «هرگاه به جشن عروسی دعوت می‌شوید، بالای مجلس ننشینید، زیرا ممکن است مهمانی مهمتر از شما بیاید و |
9 [When that man comes], the man who invited both of you will come to you [(sg)] and say to you, ‘Let this man take your seat!’ Then you [(sg)] will have to take the most undesirable seat, and you will be ashamed.
| میزبان از شما بخواهد که جایتان را به او بدهید. آنگاه باید با شرمساری برخیزید و در پایین مجلس بنشینید! |
10 Instead, when you are invited {[someone] invites one of you} [to a feast], go and sit in the most undesirable seat. Then when the man who invited everyone comes, he will say to you [(sg)], ‘Friend, sit in a better seat!’ Then all the people who are eating with you [(sg)] will see that he is honoring you.
| پس اول، پایین مجلس بنشینید تا وقتی میزبان شما را آنجا ببیند، بیاید و شما را به بالای مجلس هدایت کند. آنگاه، در حضور مهمانان سربلند خواهید شد. |
11 Also, [remember this]: [God] will humble those who exalt themselves. And [he] will exalt those who humble themselves.”
| زیرا هر که بکوشد خود را بزرگ جلوه دهد، خوار خواهد شد، اما کسی که خود را فروتن سازد، سربلند خواهد گردید.» |
12 [Jesus] also said to [the Pharisee] who had invited him to the meal, “When you [(sg)] invite people to a midday or evening meal, do not invite your friends or your family or your other relatives or your rich neighbors. They can later invite you [(sg) for a meal]. In that way they will repay you.
| سپس رو به صاحب خانه کرد و گفت: «هرگاه ضیافتی ترتیب می‌دهی، دوستان و برادران و بستگان و همسایگان ثروتمند خود را دعوت نکن، چون ایشان هم در عوض، تو را دعوت خواهند کرد. |
13 Instead, when you [(sg)] give a feast, invite poor [people], crippled [people], lame [people], or blind [people].
| بلکه وقتی مهمانی می‌دهی، فقیران، لنگان و شلان و نابینایان را دعوت کن. |
14 They will be unable to repay you. [But God will bless you! He] will repay you [at the time] when [he causes] righteous people to become alive again.”
| آنگاه خدا در روز قیامت درستکاران، تو را اجر خواهد داد، زیرا کسانی را خدمت کردی که نتوانستند محبتت را جبران کنند.» |
15 One of those who were eating with Jesus heard him say that. He said to Jesus, “God [has truly] blessed [us Jews] who will eat [with the Messiah] when he starts to rule!”
| یکی از آنانی که بر سر سفره نشسته بود، چون این سخنان را شنید، گفت: «خوشا به حال کسی که در ضیافت ملکوت خدا شرکت کند!» |
16 But [to show that many Jews whom God had invited would not accept God’s invitation] [MET], Jesus replied to him, “One time a man [decided] to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.
| عیسی در جواب او این داستان را بیان کرد: «شخصی ضیافت مفصلی ترتیب داد و بسیاری را دعوت کرد. |
17 When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been {whom he had} invited, ‘Come [now] because everything is ready!’
| وقتی همه چیز آماده شد، خدمتکار خود را فرستاد تا به دعوت‌شدگان بگوید،”تشریف بیاورید، همه چیز آماده است.“ |
18 But [when the servant did that], all of the people [whom he had invited] began to say why they did not want to come. The first [man the servant went to] said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
| اما هر یک از دعوت‌شدگان به نوعی عذر و بهانه آوردند. یکی گفت که قطعه زمینی خریده است و باید برود آن را ببیند. |
19 Another person said, ‘I have just bought five pair of oxen, and I must go to examine them. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
| دیگری گفت که پنج جفت گاو خریده است و باید برود آنها را امتحان کند. |
20 Another person said, ‘I have just been married. So I cannot come.’
| یکی دیگر نیز گفت که تازه ازدواج کرده و به همین دلیل نمی‌تواند بیاید. |
21 So the servant returned to his master and reported what [everyone had said]. The owner of the house was angry [when he heard the reasons they gave for not] coming. He said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city [and find] poor and crippled and blind and lame [people, and bring] them here into [my house]!’
| «خدمتکار بازگشت و پاسخ دعوت‌شدگان را به اطلاع ارباب خود رسانید. ارباب به خشم آمد و به او گفت:”فوری به میدانها و کوچه‌های شهر برو و فقیران و مفلوجان و شلان و کوران را دعوت کن!“ |
22 [After the servant went and did that], he [came back and] said, ‘Sir, I have done what you [(sg)] told me to do, but there is still room [for more people].’
| وقتی این دستور اجرا شد، باز هنوز جای اضافی باقی بود. |
23 [So] his master said to him, ‘Then go [outside the city]. Search for people along the highways. Search also along the narrow roads with hedges beside them [where homeless people may be staying]. Strongly urge the people in those places to come to [my house]. I want it to be full of [people]!’”
| پس ارباب به خدمتکارش گفت:”حال به شاهراهها و کوره‌راهها برو و هر که را می‌بینی به اصرار بیاور تا خانه من پر شود. |
24 [Then Jesus said], “I tell you [(pl)] this: Very few of you [Jewish] people will enjoy my feast, even though [I] invited you [first to eat it with me when I become king].”
| چون از آن کسانی که دعوت کرده بودم، هیچ‌یک طعم خوراکهایی را که تدارک دیده‌ام، نخواهند چشید!“» |
25 Large groups of people were traveling with [Jesus]. He turned and said to them,
| یک بار که جمعیت بزرگی به دنبال عیسی می‌رفتند، او رو به ایشان کرد و گفت: |
26 “If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters [more than] [HYP] [he loves me], he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!
| «هر که می‌خواهد پیرو من باشد، باید مرا از پدر و مادر، زن و فرزند، برادر و خواهر و حتی از جان خود نیز بیشتر دوست بدارد. |
27 [People who are ready to execute a prisoner make] him carry his cross [MET] [to the place where others will nail him] on it. Only those who are willing [to allow others to hurt them and disgrace them] like that because of being my disciples, and who are willing to obey what I teach, can be my disciples.
| هر که صلیب خود را برندارد و از من پیروی نکند، نمی‌تواند شاگرد من باشد. |
28 [I will illustrate] [MET]. If one of you desired to build a (tower/big house), (you would surely first sit down and determine how much it would cost!/would you not first sit down and determine how much it would cost?) [RHQ] Then you would determine whether you had enough money to complete it.
| «اما پیش از آنکه در مورد پیروی از من، تصمیمی بگیرید، همه جوانب را خوب بسنجید! اگر کسی در نظر دارد ساختمانی بسازد، ابتدا مخارج آن را برآورد می‌کند تا ببیند آیا از عهده آن برمی‌آید یا نه. |
29 [If you did not do that], if you laid the foundation and were not able to finish [the rest of the tower], everyone who saw it would make fun of you.
| مبادا وقتی بنیاد عمارت را گذاشت، سرمایه‌اش تمام شود و نتواند کار را تمام کند! آنگاه همه تمسخرکنان خواهند گفت: |
30 They would say, ‘This man started to build [a tower], but he was not able to finish it!’
| این شخص ساختن عمارتی را شروع کرد، اما نتوانست آن را به پایان برساند! |
31 Or, if a king decided to [send his army to] war against another king, (he would surely first sit down [with those who] advised [him]./would he not first sit down [with those who] advised [him]?) [RHQ] They would determine whether [his army], which had only 10,000 soldiers, could defeat the [other army], which had 20,000 soldiers, and was about to attack his [army].
| «یا فرض کنید پادشاهی می‌خواهد با پادشاه دیگری بجنگد. او ابتدا با مشاورانش مشورت می‌کند تا ببیند که آیا با یک نیروی ده هزار نفری، می‌تواند یک لشکر بیست هزار نفری را شکست بدهد یا نه. |
32 If he [decided] that his army could not [defeat that army], he would send messengers to [the other king] while the other army was still far away. He would tell the messengers to say to that king, ‘What things must I do to have peace with your country?’
| اگر دید که قادر به این کار نیست، هنگامی که سپاه دشمن هنوز دور است، نمایندگانی را می‌فرستد تا درباره شرایط صلح مذاکره کنند. |
33 So, similarly, if any one of you does not first decide that you [(sg)] are [willing to] give up all that you have, you cannot be my disciple.”
| به همین طریق، کسی که می‌خواهد شاگرد من شود، نخست باید بنشیند و حساب کند که آیا می‌تواند به خاطر من از مال و دارایی خود چشم بپوشد یا نه. |
34 [Jesus also said, “You are like] [MET] salt, which is useful [to put on food]. But (salt certainly cannot be made {[you] certainly cannot make salt} to taste salty again if it stops tasting salty!/can salt be made {can [you] make salt} to taste salty again if it quits tasting salty?) [RHQ]
| «نمک خوب است، اما اگر طعم و خاصیتش را از دست بدهد، چگونه می‌توان طعم و خاصیتش را به آن برگرداند؟ |
35 [If salt does not taste salty any more], it is not good for the soil or even for the manure heap. [People] throw it away. [The same thing will happen to you if you become useless to God]. If you want to understand what I just said [IDM], you must consider [carefully] what you have heard!”
| نمک بی‌طعم و بی‌خاصیت حتی به درد کود زمین هم نمی‌خورد. فقط باید آن را دور ریخت. هر که گوش شنوا دارد، بشنود!» |
