Luke 7
1 After Jesus finished saying this to the people, he went [with his disciples] to Capernaum [town].
Cum autem implesset omnia verba sua in aures plebis, intravit Capharnaum.
2 There was a Roman army officer there who had a slave whom he thought highly of. This slave was so sick that he was about to die.
Centurionis autem cuiusdam servus male habens, erat moriturus: qui illi erat pretiosus.
3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he [summoned] some Jewish elders. He told them to go to Jesus and ask him to come and heal his slave.
Et cum audisset de Iesu, misit ad eum seniores Iudaeorum, rogans eum ut veniret, et sanaret servum eius.
4 When they came to where Jesus was, they earnestly asked Jesus [to return with them]. They said, “This officer deserves that you [(sg)] do this [for him],
At illi cum venissent ad Iesum, rogabant eum solicite, dicentes ei: Quia dignus est ut hoc illi praestes.
5 because he loves us [Jewish] people, and he [paid the money to] build a synagogue for us.”
diligit enim gentem nostram: et synagogam ipse aedificavit nobis.
6 So Jesus went with them. When he was near the [officer’s] house, the officer [decided that it was not necessary for Jesus to come to his house. So he] summoned some friends. He [told them to] go to Jesus and tell him this: “Lord/Sir, do not bother to come. [Because I am a non-Jew], I am not worthy for you [(sg)], [a Jew], to come into my house [MTY] [and associate with me].
Iesus autem ibat cum illis. Et cum iam non longe esset a domo, misit ad eum Centurio amicos, dicens: Domine noli vexari: Non enim sum dignus ut sub tectum meum intres.
7 I did not feel worthy to come to you, [either]. But [please] command [that] my servant [be healed], and he will become well!
propter quod et meipsum non sum dignum arbitratus ut venirem ad te: sed dic verbo, et sanabitur puer meus.
8 [I believe this] because, as for me, there are people who have authority over me [and I obey them]. I also have soldiers under my [authority]. When I say to one of them, ‘Go!’ he goes. When I say to another ‘Come!’ he comes. When I say to my slave, ‘Do this!’ he does it. [And I believe that you speak with a similar kind of authority].”
nam et ego homo sum sub potestate constitutus, habens sub me milites: et dico huic vade, et vadit: et alio veni, et venit: et servo meo, fac hoc, et facit.
9 When [the officer’s friends arrived and] told that to Jesus, he marveled at what [the officer had said]. Then he turned and said to the crowd that was going with him, “I tell you, I have never before found anyone who trusted [in me like this non-Jewish man does]. No one from Israel, [where I would expect people to believe in me], has trusted in me like he has!”
Quo audito Iesus miratus est: et conversus sequentibus se turbis, dixit: Amen dico vobis, nec in Israel tantam fidem inveni.
10 When those men returned to the officer’s house, they found that the slave was well.
Et reversi, qui missi fuerant domum, invenerunt servum, qui languerat, sanum.
11 Soon after that, Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd [of other people] went with him.
Et factum est: deinceps ibat Iesus in civitatem, quae vocatur Naim: et ibant cum eo discipuli eius, et turba copiosa.
12 As they approached the town gate, the corpse of a young man who had just died was being carried out [on a stretcher] {[people] were carrying out [on a stretcher] the corpse of a young man who had just died}. His mother was a widow, and he was her only son. A large group of people from the town were accompanying them.
Cum autem appropinquaret portae civitatis, ecce defunctus efferebatur filius unicus matris suae: et haec vidua erat: et turba civitatis multa cum illa.
13 When the Lord saw her, he pitied her. He said to her, “Do not cry!”
Quam cum vidisset Dominus, misericordia motus super eam, dixit illi: Noli flere.
14 Then, [ignoring the Jewish laws about not coming near a corpse], he came close and touched the stretcher [on which the body was lying]. So the men carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”
Et accessit, et tetigit loculum. (Hi autem, qui portabant, steterunt) Et ait: Adolescens, tibi dico, surge.
15 The man sat up and began to talk! Jesus returned him to his mother [to care for her].
Et resedit qui erat mortuus, et coepit loqui. Et dedit illum matri suae.
16 Then everyone [there] was amazed/awestruck. They praised God, saying, “A great prophet has come among us!” They also said, “God has come to help his people!”
Accepit autem omnes timor: et magnificabant Deum, dicentes: Quia propheta magnus surrexit in nobis: et quia Deus visitavit plebem suam.
17 [Then they] reported what Jesus [had done] throughout all of Judea [district] and other nearby areas.
Et exiit hic sermo in universam Iudaeam de eo, et in omnem circa regionem.
18 The disciples of John [the Baptizer went to the prison where John was and] told him about those things.
Et nunciaverunt Ioanni discipuli eius de omnibus his.
19 So [one day] John summoned two [of his disciples] and [told them] to go to the Lord and ask him: “Are you [the Messiah who the prophets prophesied would come], or is it someone else that we should expect [to come]?”
Et convocavit duos de discipulis suis Ioannes, et misit ad Iesum, dicens: Tu es qui venturus es, an alium expectamus?
20 When those two men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptizer sent us to ask you [(sg)] this: Are you [the Messiah that] we are expecting [God] to send, or shall we [(exc)] expect someone else?”
Cum autem venissent ad eum viri, dixerunt: Ioannes Baptista misit nos ad te dicens: Tu es, qui venturus es, an alium expectamus?
21 At that very time Jesus was healing many people of their diseases and [other] sicknesses, he was [casting out] evil spirits, and he was causing many blind people to be able to see.
(in ipsa autem hora multos curavit a languoribus, et plagis, et spiritibus malis, et caecis multis donavit visum.)
22 So he answered those two men, “Go back and report to John what you have seen [me doing] and what you have heard [me telling people. I am enabling] blind people to see. [I am enabling] lame people to walk. [I am] healing people who have leprosy. [I am enabling] deaf people to hear. [I am causing] dead people to become alive again, [and I am] telling [God’s] good message to poor people.
Et respondens, dixit illis: Euntes renunciate Ioanni quae audistis, et vidistis: Quia caeci vident, claudi ambulant, leprosi mundantur, surdi audiunt, mortui resurgunt, pauperes evangelizantur:
23 [Also tell John that God] is pleased with those who do not stop believing in me [because what I do is not what they expect the Messiah to do].”
et beatus est quicumque non fuerit scandalizatus in me.
24 When the men whom John had sent left, Jesus began to talk to the crowd of people about John. He said to them, “[Think about] what sort of person you went to see in the desolate area [when you went there to see John] [RHQ]. [You did not go there to listen to a man who constantly changed the nature of his message] [MET], [like] a reed that is blown back and forth by the wind [RHQ].
Et cum discessissent nuncii Ioannis, coepit de Ioanne dicere ad turbas: Quid existis in desertum videre? arundinem vento agitatam?
25 Then what kind of man did you go there to see [RHQ]? Was he [RHQ] a man who wore expensive clothes? No! [You know very well that] people who wear beautiful clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ palaces, [not in the desolate areas]!
Sed quid existis videre? hominem mollibus vestibus indutum? Ecce qui in veste pretiosa sunt et deliciis, in domibus regum sunt.
26 Then what [kind of person] did you go to see? [Did you] [RHQ] [go there to see John because he was] a prophet? Yes! But I will tell you that [John is] more [important] than an [ordinary] prophet.
Sed quid existis videre? prophetam? Utique dico vobis, et plusquam Prophetam:
27 He is the one about whom [these words] that God said to the Messiah have been written {[the prophet Malachi] wrote [these words]} [in the Scriptures]: ‘Listen! I am going to send my messenger ahead of you [(sg)] [SYN]. He will prepare [people] for your coming.’
hic est, de quo scriptum est: Ecce mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam, qui praeparabit viam tuam ante te.
28 I tell you that from among all the people who have ever lived, [God considers that] no one is greater than John. However, [God considers] everyone who has let God rule their [lives] [MET] to be greater than [John], [even if they are] insignificant [people].”
Dico enim vobis: Maior inter natos mulierum propheta Ioanne Baptista nemo est. qui autem minor est in regno Dei, maior est illo.
29 When they heard [what Jesus said] (OR, [what John preached]), all the people, including tax collectors, [whom many people despised], agreed that God’s way was right. By being baptized by John {By [letting] John baptize them}, [they had agreed that what God required people to do in order to be saved was right].
Et omnis populus audiens et publicani, iustificaverunt Deum, baptizati baptismo Ioannis.
30 But the Pharisees and the men who taught the [Jewish] laws were not baptized by John {did not [let] John baptize them} because they rejected what God wanted them to do.
Pharisaei autem, et legis periti consilium Dei spreverunt in semetipsos, non baptizati ab eo.
31 [Then Jesus also said], “[Many of] you people have heard what [John and I] have taught. (I will illustrate what you are like./Do you know what [many of] you people who have heard what [John and I] have taught are like?) [RHQ]
Ait autem Dominus: Cui ergo similes dicam homines generationis huius? et cui similes sunt?
32 You are like children who are [playing games] in an open area. [Some of them] are calling to [the others], saying, ‘We [(exc)] played happy music for you on the flute, but you did not dance! Then we sang sad funeral songs for you, but you did not cry!’
Similes sunt pueris sedentibus in foro, et loquentibus adinvicem, et dicentibus: Cantavimus vobis tibiis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non plorastis.
33 [Similarly, you people are dissatisfied with both John the Baptizer and me]! When John came and [preached to you], he did not eat [ordinary] food [SYN] or drink wine, [like most people do]. But you [rejected him], saying, ‘A demon is controlling him!’
Venit enim Ioannes Baptista, neque manducans panem, neque bibens vinum, et dicitis: Daemonium habet.
34 In [contrast], [I], the one who came from heaven, eat [the same food] and drink [wine as others do]. But you [reject me], saying, ‘Look! [This man] eats too much food and drinks too much wine, and he associates with tax collectors and [other] sinners!’
Venit Filius hominis manducans, et bibens, et dicitis: Ecce homo devorator, et bibens vinum, amicus publicanorum, et peccatorum.
35 But those who are [truly God’s] children [PRS] realize that [what John and I do is truly] wise.”
Et iustificata est sapientia ab omnibus filiis suis.
36 [One day] one of the Pharisees [named Simon] invited Jesus to eat a meal with him. So Jesus went to the man’s house and reclined [to eat].
Rogabat autem illum quidam de Pharisaeis ut manducaret cum illo. Et ingressus domum Pharisaei discubuit.
37 There was a woman in that city [who many people knew had been] a prostitute [EUP]. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s house. So she went there, taking a stone jar that contained perfume.
Et ecce mulier, quae erat in civitate peccatrix, ut cognovit quod Iesus accubuisset in domo Pharisaei, attulit alabastrum unguenti:
38 [As the people there were reclining to eat], the woman stood behind [Jesus, at his] feet. As she was crying [because she was sorry for her sins, her tears fell on Jesus’ feet]. Then she wiped his feet with her hair, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the perfume.
et stans retro secus pedes eius, lacrymis coepit rigare pedes eius, et capillis capitis sui tergebat, et osculabatur pedes eius, et unguento ungebat.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited [Jesus] saw that, he thought, “[Prophets know about other people’s lives], [so] if Jesus were a prophet, he would have known who this woman is who is touching him, and what kind of a person she is. He would have known that she is a prostitute! [EUP]”
Videns autem Pharisaeus, qui vocaverat eum, ait intra se dicens: Hic si esset propheta, sciret utique, quae, et qualis est mulier, quae tangit eum: quia peccatrix est.
40 Jesus said to him, “Simon, there is something I want to tell you [(sg)].” He replied, “Teacher, what is it?”
Et respondens Iesus, dixit ad illum: Simon, habeo tibi aliquid dicere. At ille ait: Magister, dic.
41 Jesus replied, “Two people owed some money to a man who [earned money by] lending [it to others]. One owed him 500 silver coins, and the other owed him 50 silver coins.
Duo debitores erant cuidam foeneratori: unus debebat denarios quingentos, et alius quinquaginta.
42 Neither of them was able to pay back [what he owed], so the man [very kindly] said that they did not have to pay back anything. So, which of those two men will love that man more?”
Non habentibus illis unde redderent, donavit utrisque. Quis ergo eum plus diligit?
43 Simon replied, “I think that the one who owed the most money and did not have to pay it back [will love him more].” Jesus said to him, “That is correct.”
Respondens Simon dixit: Aestimo quia is, cui plus donavit. At ille dixit ei: Recte iudicasti.
44 Then he turned toward the woman, and said to Simon, “(Think about [what] this woman [has done]!/Do you [(sg)] see [what] this woman [has done]?) [RHQ] When I entered your house, you [did not follow our custom of welcoming guests by] giving me any water [to wash] my feet, but this woman has wet my feet with her tears and then wiped them with her hair!
Et conversus ad mulierem, dixit Simoni: Vides hanc mulierem? Intravi domum tuam, aquam pedibus meis non dedisti: haec autem lacrymis rigavit pedes meos, et capillis suis tersit.
45 You did not [follow our custom of greeting by] kissing me, but since I came in, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet!
Osculum mihi non dedisti: haec autem ex quo intravit, non cessavit osculari pedes meos.
46 You did not [follow our custom of welcoming guests by] anointing my head with [olive] oil, but she has anointed my feet with fragrant perfume.
Oleo caput meum non unxisti: haec autem unguento unxit pedes meos.
47 So I will tell you that even though this woman has sinned very much, she has been forgiven {[I] have forgiven her}. [By what she has done she has shown that] she loves [me] very much. But a person who has [sinned] just a little bit, but whom [I] have forgiven, will love [me just a little bit].”
Propter quod dico tibi: Remittuntur ei peccata multa, quoniam dilexit multum. Cui autem minus dimittitur, minus diligit.
48 Then he said to the woman, “You have been forgiven {[I have] forgiven [you]} [for] your sins.”
Dixit autem ad illam: Remittuntur tibi peccata tua.
49 Then those who were eating with him said among themselves, “(This man must [think that he is God]!/Who does this man [think that he] is [RHQ]), saying that he can forgive [people for] their sins?”
Et coeperunt qui simul accumbebant, dicere intra se: Quis est hic, qui etiam peccata dimittit?
50 But Jesus said to the woman, “Because you have trusted [PRS] [in me, God] has saved you [from the guilt of your sins]. May [God] give you inner peace as you go!”
Dixit autem ad mulierem: Fides tua te salvam fecit: vade in pace.
