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    Luke 18

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    The judge grants the widow justice for the least judicial of reasons: not because he fears God or respects people, but because her appeals are wearing him out.

    The widow who would not stopvv. 1–14

    Jesus opens with a judge whose moral furniture is conspicuously absent: he fears neither God nor men. A widow keeps asking him for justice, and his eventual decision is less a conversion than an administrative surrender. Then comes the Pharisee, praying in a temple while making a careful inventory of the people he is not; nearby, the tax collector manages only a lowered gaze, a beaten breast, and a plea for mercy. The one who said least about himself goes home justified.

    The child, the rich ruler, and the road aheadvv. 15–34

    People bring babies to Jesus, while the disciples attempt to close the door on the nursery. Jesus calls the children near and says that the kingdom belongs to such as these. A ruler then arrives with a question about eternal life and discovers that the one thing still lacking is the one thing he cannot bear to lose. His sadness prompts the camel and the needle, an image with no evident interest in making the rich comfortable. Peter points out what the disciples have left behind; Jesus answers with what they will receive. Then he takes the Twelve aside and describes the road to Jerusalem, including mockery, spitting, flogging, death, and rising again. The disciples understand none of it.

    A voice beside the roadvv. 35–43

    Near Jericho, a blind man is sitting by the road and begging. Hearing a crowd, he asks what is happening; on learning that Jesus of Nazareth is passing by, he calls Jesus the Son of David and asks for mercy. The people leading the way try to hush him, which only makes him louder. Jesus stops, has the man brought near, and asks what he wants. The answer is plain. Sight returns immediately, and the man follows Jesus while glorifying God; the crowd, having witnessed this, praises God as well.

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    1. Luke 18:1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:

    2. Luke 18:2“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

    3. Luke 18:3And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

    4. Luke 18:4For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

    5. Luke 18:5yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Otherwise, she will wear me out with her perpetual requests.’”

    6. Luke 18:6And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.

    7. Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?

    8. Luke 18:8I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”

    9. Luke 18:9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

    10. Luke 18:10“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

    11. Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

    12. Luke 18:12I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’

    13. Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

    14. Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

    15. Luke 18:15Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.

    16. Luke 18:16But Jesus called the children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

    17. Luke 18:17Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

    18. Luke 18:18Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

    19. Luke 18:19“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

    20. Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

    21. Luke 18:21“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

    22. Luke 18:22On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

    23. Luke 18:23But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.

    24. Luke 18:24Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

    25. Luke 18:25Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

    26. Luke 18:26Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”

    27. Luke 18:27But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

    28. Luke 18:28“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

    29. Luke 18:29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

    30. Luke 18:30will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

    31. Luke 18:31Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

    32. Luke 18:32He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

    33. Luke 18:33They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”

    34. Luke 18:34But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

    35. Luke 18:35As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.

    36. Luke 18:36When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

    37. Luke 18:37“Jesus of Nazareth is passing by,” they told him.

    38. Luke 18:38So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

    39. Luke 18:39Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

    40. Luke 18:40Jesus stopped and directed that the man be brought to Him. When he had come near, Jesus asked him,

    41. Luke 18:41“What do you want Me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “let me see again.”

    42. Luke 18:42“Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”

    43. Luke 18:43Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

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    • 1Colossians 4:2Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
    • 1Romans 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
    • 11 Thessalonians 5:17Pray without ceasing.
    • 1Philippians 4:6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
    • 1Ephesians 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
    • 1Psalms 55:16–17But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
    • 1Jeremiah 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
    • 1Galatians 6:9Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
    • 27Jeremiah 32:17“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
    • 1Psalms 86:3Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
    • 27Luke 1:37For no word from God will ever fail.”
    • 27Matthew 19:26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
    • 1Luke 11:5–9Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
    • 12 Corinthians 4:1Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
    • 27Job 42:2“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
    • 27Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

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