Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 12:14 (New Living Translation) 13 Then someone called from the crowd, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Friend, who made me a judge over you to decide such things as that?” A man comes to Jesus with a personal problem. The man wants Jesus to solve […]

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Luke 12:1 (New Living Translation) …Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees—their hypocrisy. Jesus is speaking here. What is the yeast of the Pharisees? Many point out that throughout the Bible yeast is often mentioned with sin. Here, however, Jesus mentions a specific failure: hypocrisy. “Those Christians are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.” I heard […]

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Luke 7:33-34 (New Living Translation) 33 For John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and […]

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Luke 11:52 (New Living Translation) “What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” Jesus is speaking in this verse. He condemns the religious leaders—those who should be teaching the people about God. Those […]

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Luke 16:15 (New Living Translation) Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God. Put the last sentence of this verse under that tag “#IknowthisfromJesusbutIhateit.” Surely Jesus didn’t know what he was saying. Surely this is […]

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Luke 7:1-5 (New Living Translation) When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. 2 At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. 3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and […]

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Luke 3:8  (New Living Translation) Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones. In this […]

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Luke 3:5 (New Living Translation) The valleys will be filled, and the mountains and hills made level. The curves will be straightened, and the rough places made smooth. These verses from Luke’s Gospel are about John the Baptizer. The words are quoted from the prophet Isaiah describing how John would prepare the way for Jesus. […]

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Luke 17:7-10 (New Living Translation) 7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me […]

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Luke 19:41-44 (New Living Translation) 41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build […]

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