12:1But, many crowds standing around, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples: "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 12:2But nothing is covered which will not be revealed: nor hidden which will not be known. 12:3For the things which you have said in the darkness will be said in the light: and what you have spoken into the ear in the bedrooms will be proclaimed on the roofs. 12:4But I say to you, my friends: Do not be terrified by those who kill the body, and after these things do not have anything more which they may do. 12:5But I will show you whom you should fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to send into Gehenna: so I say to you, fear this one.
12:6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies, and not one of them is in forgetfulness before God? 12:7But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. 12:7Do not therefore fear: you are of more worth than many sparrows. 12:8But I say to you: Everyone whoever has confessed me before people, the Son of Man too will confess him before the angels of God: but whoever has denied me before people will be denied before the angels of God. 12:10And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be let go for him: but for him who has blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, it will not be let go.
12:11But when they lead you into synagogues, and to magistrates and authorities, do not be anxious how, or what you should answer, or what you should say. 12:12For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." 12:13And a certain one from the crowd said to him: "Master, tell my brother that he divide the inheritance with me." 12:14But he said to him: "Man, who appointed me judge or divider over you?" 12:15And he said to them: "See, and beware of all greed: because not in anyone's abundance is his life, from the things which he possesses." 12:16And he spoke a likeness to them, saying: "The field of a certain rich man brought forth plentiful fruits: and he was thinking within himself, saying: 'What shall I do, because I do not have where to gather my fruits?' 12:18And he said: 'This I will do: I will pull down my barns, and make bigger ones: and there I will gather all the things which have grown for me, and my goods, and I will say to my soul: "Soul, you have many goods laid up for very many years: rest, eat, drink, feast."' 12:20But God said to him: 'Fool, this night they demand your soul back from you: and the things which you have prepared, whose will they be?' 12:21So is he who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God."
12:22And he said to his disciples: "Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you are to eat, nor for your body, what you are to put on. 12:23The life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 12:24Consider the ravens, that they do not sow, nor reap, who have no storeroom, nor barn, and God feeds them. 12:24How much more are you of more worth than they? 12:25But which of you by thinking can add one cubit to his stature? 12:26If therefore you cannot do even what is least, why are you anxious about the rest? 12:27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not labour, nor spin: but I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.
12:28But if the grass, which today is in the field, and tomorrow is sent into the oven, God so clothes: how much more you, of little faith? 12:29And you, do not seek what you are to eat, or what you are to drink: and do not be lifted up on high: for all these things the nations of the world seek. 12:30But your Father knows that you need these things. 12:31But yet seek first the kingdom of God, and his justice: and all these things will be added to you. 12:32Do not fear, little flock, because it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. 12:33Sell the things which you possess, and give alms.
12:33Make for yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure not failing in the heavens: where a thief does not come near, nor a moth corrupts. 12:34For where your treasure is, there your heart too will be. 12:35Let your loins be girded, and lamps burning in your hands, and you like people awaiting their lord, when he returns from the wedding: so that, when he has come and knocked, they may at once open to him. 12:37Blessed are those servants whom, when the lord comes, he finds keeping watch: amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will make them recline, and passing by he will serve them.
12:38And if he comes in the second watch, and if he comes in the third watch, and finds them so, blessed are those servants. 12:39But know this, that if the father of the household knew at what hour the thief would come, he would surely keep watch, and would not allow his house to be dug through. 12:40And you, be ready: because at an hour you do not think, the Son of Man will come." 12:41And Peter said to him: "Lord, do you say this parable to us, or also to all?" 12:42And the Lord said: "Who, do you think, is the faithful and prudent steward, whom the lord appoints over his household, to give them in season their measure of wheat?
12:43Blessed is that servant whom, when the lord comes, he finds doing so. 12:44Truly I say to you, that over all the things which he possesses he will appoint him. 12:45But if that servant says in his heart: 'My lord is making a delay in coming': and begins to strike the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat, and drink, and be drunk: the lord of that servant will come on a day on which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him apart, and will put his portion with the unfaithful. 12:47But that servant who knew the will of his lord, and did not prepare, and did not act according to his will, will be beaten with many blows: but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few.
12:48But from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be sought: and from him to whom they have entrusted much, they will ask more. 12:49Fire I have come to send onto the earth, and what do I wish but that it be kindled? 12:50But with a baptism I have to be baptized: and how am I constrained until it is accomplished? 12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? 12:51No, I say to you, but division: for from this time there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three will be divided: father against son, and son against his father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
12:54And he was saying also to the crowds: "When you see a cloud rising from the west, at once you say: 'A rainstorm is coming': and so it happens. 12:55And when you see the south wind blowing, you say: 'There will be heat': and it happens. 12:56Hypocrites! 12:56The face of the sky and of the earth you know how to test: but how do you not test this time? 12:57And why do you not, even of yourselves, judge what is just? 12:58And when you are going with your adversary to the ruler, on the way give effort to be freed from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer send you into prison.
12:59I say to you, you will not go out from there until you pay back even the last mite."