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Gospel of Luke, Chapter 15

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Chapter 15 of Luke—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Now all the tax collectors1 and the sinners2 kept drawing near to him to hear him.
  2. Consequently both the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering, saying: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”3
  3. Then he spoke this illustration to them, saying:
  4. “What man of YOU with a hundred sheep, on losing one of them, will not leave the ninety-nine behind in the wilderness and go for the lost one until he finds it?4
  5. And when he has found it he puts it upon his shoulders and rejoices.5
  6. And when he gets home he calls his friends and his neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’6
  7. I tell YOU that thus there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents7 than over ninety-nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.8
  8. ¶ “Or what woman with ten drachma[a] coins, if she loses one drachma coin, does not light a lamp and sweep her house and search carefully until she finds it?
  9. And when she has found it she calls the women who are her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma coin that I lost.’
  10. Thus, I tell YOU, joy arises among the angels of God over one sinner that repents.”9
  11. ¶ Then he said: “A certain man had two sons.10
  12. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the part of the property that falls to my share.’11 Then he divided his means of living12 to them.
  13. Later, after not many days, the younger son gathered all things together and traveled abroad into a distant country, and there squandered his property by living a debauched life.13
  14. When he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred throughout that country, and he started to be in need.
  15. He even went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to herd swine.14
  16. And he used to desire to be filled with the carob pods which the swine were eating, and no one would give him [anything].15
  17. ¶ “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many hired men of my father are abounding with bread, while I am perishing here from famine!
  18. I will rise and journey16 to my father and say to him: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.[b]17
  19. I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.”’
  20. So he rose and went to his father. While he was yet a long way off, his father caught sight of him and was moved with pity, and he ran and fell upon his neck and tenderly kissed him.
  21. Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.[c]18 I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.’[d]19
  22. But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quick! bring out a robe, the best one, and clothe20 him with it, and put a ring21 on his hand and sandals on his feet.
  23. And bring the fattened22 young bull, slaughter[e] it and let us eat and enjoy ourselves,
  24. because this my son was dead and came to life23 again; he was lost and was found.’ And they started to enjoy themselves.
  25. ¶ “Now his older son24 was in the field; and as he came and got near the house he heard a music concert and dancing.
  26. So he called one of the servants to him and inquired what these things meant.
  27. He said to him, ‘Your brother25 has come, and your father26 slaughtered the fattened young bull, because he got him back in good health.’
  28. But he became wrathful and was unwilling to go in. Then his father came out and began to entreat him.27
  29. In reply he said to his father, ‘Here it is so many years I have slaved for you and never once did I transgress your commandment, and yet to me you never once gave a kid for me to enjoy myself with my friends.28
  30. But as soon as this your son29 who ate up your means of living with harlots30 arrived, you slaughtered the fattened young bull for him.’31
  31. Then he said to him, ‘Child, you have always been with me, and all the things that are mine are yours;32
  32. but we just had to enjoy ourselves and rejoice, because this your brother was dead and came to life, and he was lost and was found.’”33

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ A drachma was a Gr. silver coin that weighed 3.40 g (0.109 oz t).
  2. ^ Or, “in your sight”; as in 1Sa 20:1 in LXX.
  3. ^ See vs 18 ftn.
  4. ^ “Make me as one of your hired men,” אBDSyh; P75AWVgSyp,s omit.
  5. ^ Or, “sacrifice.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Mt 9:10; Mr 2:15; Lu 5:29; 19:2
  2. ^ 1Ti 1:15
  3. ^ Mt 9:11; Lu 5:30; Ac 11:3
  4. ^ Eze 34:11; Mt 18:12; Lu 19:10; 1Pe 2:25
  5. ^ Mt 18:13
  6. ^ Mt 18:14; Ro 12:15; 1Pe 2:25
  7. ^ Eze 33:11; Lu 5:32
  8. ^ Pr 30:12
  9. ^ Mt 9:13; Mr 2:17
  10. ^ Mt 21:28
  11. ^ De 21:17
  12. ^ Pr 13:22
  13. ^ Pr 29:3; Lu 15:30
  14. ^ Le 11:7
  15. ^ Pr 23:21
  16. ^ Eph 4:17; 1Pe 4:3
  17. ^ 2Ch 7:14; Ps 32:5; Pr 28:13; Lu 18:13; 1Jo 1:9
  18. ^ Ps 51:4
  19. ^ 2Co 7:10
  20. ^ Zc 3:4
  21. ^ Ge 41:42; Es 8:8
  22. ^ Mt 22:4
  23. ^ Jn 5:25; Ro 6:13; Eph 2:1, 5; Re 3:1
  24. ^ Heb 12:23
  25. ^ Jn 10:16
  26. ^ Is 25:6
  27. ^ Mt 20:11
  28. ^ Mt 20:12
  29. ^ Re 7:13
  30. ^ Pr 29:3
  31. ^ Re 7:14
  32. ^ Jn 17:10; Ro 8:17
  33. ^ Lu 15:24

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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