Matthew 17 — GNB — Biblija.net

¹ Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and the brothers James and John and led them up a high mountain where they were alone. ² As they looked on, a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white. ³ Then the three disciples saw Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus. ^* ⁴ So Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, “Lord, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ⁵ While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased—listen to him!”

Temptations to Sin

⁶ When the disciples heard the voice, they were so terrified that they threw themselves face downward on the ground. ⁷ Jesus came to them and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don't be afraid!” ⁸ So they looked up and saw no one there but Jesus. ⁹ As they came down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Don't tell anyone about this vision you have seen until the Son of Man has been raised from death.”

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Then the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?” ¹¹ “Elijah is indeed coming first,” answered Jesus, “and he will get everything ready.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² But I tell you that Elijah has already come and people did not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. In the same way they will also mistreat the Son of Man.”

Jesus Blesses Little Children

¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

¹⁴ When they returned to the crowd, a man came to Jesus, knelt before him,

When Someone Sins

¹⁵ and said, “Sir, have mercy on my son! He is an epileptic and has such terrible attacks that he often falls in the fire or into water.

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

¹⁷ Jesus answered, “How unbelieving and wrong you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy here to me!”

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ Jesus gave a command to the demon, and it went out of the boy, and at that very moment he was healed. ¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked him, “Why couldn't we drive the demon out?”

A Mother's Request

²⁰ “It was because you do not have enough faith,” answered Jesus. “I assure you that if you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill, ‘Go from here to there!’ and it will go. You could do anything!”

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² When the disciples all came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be handed over to those

The Question about Jesus' Authority

²³ who will kill him; but three days later he will be raised to life.” The disciples became very sad.

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?” ²⁵ “Of course,” Peter answered. When Peter went into the house, Jesus spoke up first, “Simon, what is your opinion? Who pays duties or taxes to the kings of this world? The citizens of the country or the foreigners?” ²⁶ “The foreigners,” answered Peter. “Well, then,” replied Jesus, “that means that the citizens don't have to pay. ²⁷ But we don't want to offend these people. So go to the lake and drop in a line. Pull up the first fish you hook, and in its mouth you will find a coin worth enough for my Temple tax and yours. Take it and pay them our taxes.”

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹ At that time the disciples came to Jesus, asking, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?” ² So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them, ³ and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. ^* ⁴ The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child. ⁵ And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.

Temptations to Sin

⁶ “If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea. ⁷ How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them! ⁸ “If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. ⁹ And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ “See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² “What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep.

Jesus Blesses Little Children

¹³ When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

¹⁴ In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.

When Someone Sins

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back.

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that ‘every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,’ as the scripture says.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

¹⁷ And if he will not listen to them, then tell the whole thing to the church. Finally, if he will not listen to the church, treat him as though he were a pagan or a tax collector.

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “And so I tell all of you: what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. ¹⁹ “And I tell you more: whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

A Mother's Request

²⁰ For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them.”

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?”

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven,

The Question about Jesus' Authority

²³ because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts.

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. ²⁵ The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt. ²⁶ The servant fell on his knees before the king. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay you everything!’ ²⁷ The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he said.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

²⁹ His fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!’ ³⁰ But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt. ³¹ When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything. ³² So he called the servant in. ‘You worthless slave!’ he said. ‘I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to.

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

(Mark 12.1-12; Luke 20.9-19)

³³ You should have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you.’ ³⁴ The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount.” ³⁵ And Jesus concluded, “That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹ When Jesus finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan River. ² Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. ³ Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him by asking, “Does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife for whatever reason he wishes?” ^* ⁴ Jesus answered, “Haven't you read the scripture that says that in the beginning the Creator made people male and female? ⁵ And God said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.’

Temptations to Sin

⁶ So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.” ⁷ The Pharisees asked him, “Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?” ⁸ Jesus answered, “Moses gave you permission to divorce your wives because you are so hard to teach. But it was not like that at the time of creation. ⁹ I tell you, then, that any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, commits adultery if he marries some other woman.”

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ His disciples said to him, “If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.” ¹¹ Jesus answered, “This teaching does not apply to everyone, but only to those to whom God has given it.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so.”

Jesus Blesses Little Children

¹³ Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and to pray for them, but the disciples scolded the people.

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

¹⁴ Jesus said, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

When Someone Sins

¹⁵ He placed his hands on them and then went away.

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ Once a man came to Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what good thing must I do to receive eternal life?”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

¹⁷ “Why do you ask me concerning what is good?” answered Jesus. “There is only One who is good. Keep the commandments if you want to enter life.”

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “What commandments?” he asked. Jesus answered, “Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; ¹⁹ respect your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

A Mother's Request

²⁰ “I have obeyed all these commandments,” the young man replied. “What else do I need to do?”

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.

The Question about Jesus' Authority

²³ Jesus then said to his disciples, “I assure you: it will be very hard for rich people to enter the Kingdom of heaven.

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ I repeat: it is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.” ²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were completely amazed. “Who, then, can be saved?” they asked. ²⁶ Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings, but for God everything is possible.” ²⁷ Then Peter spoke up. “Look,” he said, “we have left everything and followed you. What will we have?”

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Jesus said to them, “You can be sure that when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the New Age, then you twelve followers of mine will also sit on thrones, to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life. ³⁰ But many who now are first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹ “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. ² He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. ³ He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing, ^* ⁴ so he told them, ‘You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.’ ⁵ So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.

Temptations to Sin

⁶ It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. ‘Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?’ he asked them. ⁷ ‘No one hired us,’ they answered. ‘Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,’ he told them. ⁸ “When evening came, the owner told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.’ ⁹ The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each. ¹¹ They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun—yet you paid them the same as you paid us!’

Jesus Blesses Little Children

¹³ ‘Listen, friend,’ the owner answered one of them, ‘I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin.

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

¹⁴ Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you.

When Someone Sins

¹⁵ Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?’”

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ And Jesus concluded, “So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

¹⁷ As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and spoke to them privately, as they walked along.

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death ¹⁹ and then hand him over to the Gentiles, who will make fun of him, whip him, and crucify him; but three days later he will be raised to life.”

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Then the wife of Zebedee came to Jesus with her two sons, bowed before him, and asked him for a favor.

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ “What do you want?” Jesus asked her. She answered, “Promise me that these two sons of mine will sit at your right and your left when you are King.”

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “You don't know what you are asking for,” Jesus answered the sons. “Can you drink the cup of suffering that I am about to drink?” “We can,” they answered.

The Question about Jesus' Authority

²³ “You will indeed drink from my cup,” Jesus told them, “but I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. These places belong to those for whom my Father has prepared them.”

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When the other ten disciples heard about this, they became angry with the two brothers. ²⁵ So Jesus called them all together and said, “You know that the rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority. ²⁶ This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest; ²⁷ and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of the others—

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

²⁹ As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd was following. ³⁰ Two blind men who were sitting by the road heard that Jesus was passing by, so they began to shout, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!” ³¹ The crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!” ³² Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

(Mark 12.1-12; Luke 20.9-19)

³³ “Sir,” they answered, “we want you to give us our sight!” ³⁴ Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes; at once they were able to see, and they followed him.

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹ As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives. There Jesus sent two of the disciples on ahead ² with these instructions: “Go to the village there ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied up with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to me. ³ And if anyone says anything, tell him, ‘The Master needs them’; and then he will let them go at once.” ^* ⁴ This happened in order to make come true what the prophet had said:
⁵ “Tell the city of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you!
He is humble and rides on a donkey
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Temptations to Sin

⁶ So the disciples went and did what Jesus had told them to do: ⁷ they brought the donkey and the colt, threw their cloaks over them, and Jesus got on. ⁸ A large crowd of people spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. ⁹ The crowds walking in front of Jesus and those walking behind began to shout, “Praise to David's Son! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise be to God!”

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was thrown into an uproar. “Who is he?” the people asked. ¹¹ “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee,” the crowds answered.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the stools of those who sold pigeons,

Jesus Blesses Little Children

¹³ and said to them, “It is written in the Scriptures that God said, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it a hideout for thieves!”

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

¹⁴ The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.

When Someone Sins

¹⁵ The chief priests and the teachers of the Law became angry when they saw the wonderful things he was doing and the children shouting in the Temple, “Praise to David's Son!”

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ So they asked Jesus, “Do you hear what they are saying?” “Indeed I do,” answered Jesus. “Haven't you ever read this scripture? ‘You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.’”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

¹⁷ Jesus left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ On his way back to the city early next morning, Jesus was hungry. ¹⁹ He saw a fig tree by the side of the road and went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to the tree, “You will never again bear fruit!” At once the fig tree dried up.

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The disciples saw this and were astounded. “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?” they asked.

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Jesus answered, “I assure you that if you believe and do not doubt, you will be able to do what I have done to this fig tree. And not only this, but you will even be able to say to this hill, ‘Get up and throw yourself in the sea,’ and it will.

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

The Question about Jesus' Authority

²³ Jesus came back to the Temple; and as he taught, the chief priests and the elders came to him and asked, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?”

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Jesus answered them, “I will ask you just one question, and if you give me an answer, I will tell you what right I have to do these things. ²⁵ Where did John's right to baptize come from: was it from God or from human beings?” They started to argue among themselves, “What shall we say? If we answer, ‘From God,’ he will say to us, ‘Why, then, did you not believe John?’ ²⁶ But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ we are afraid of what the people might do, because they are all convinced that John was a prophet.” ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Now, what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the older one and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men