“JESUS SAID”

UNDER THIS TITLE, PLEASE FIND STORIES JESUS TOLD 2,000 YEARS AGO.

These same stories were recorded by eyewitnesses, who walked, talked, and listened to Jesus. They ate with Him, they drank with Him

Together they hiked the dusty trails across the Holy land, fished the Galilee and worshipped in the local synagogues. Some of these men are named in the Gospels.

We plan to post these stories without pictures, sound or comment. We have nothing to send you. You have no obligation except to thoughtfully read one story at a time, allowing the word to speak to you. When you feel blessed, Remember to Thank God.

The text is complete, but we suggest after reading, that you use the Bible reference to see where the story was first told. Many times the context tells us why it was told and who first heard it.

This is classic literature, using an economy of words with a vocabulary for those common people listening.

If a story is new to you, read it first for the narrative. (These stories stand alone.) The “point” is readily understood. Some are self-explained. (The intent was not to give each word a double meaning.)

Sometimes emphasis is given by using perhaps three examples. Like these, three lost things. This is our first story. It begins below,

Ref: Luke 15:3-32 Jesus said #1

If one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the missing one until he has found it? How delighted he is then! He lifts it on to his shoulders, and home he goes to call his friends and neighbors together. “Rejoice with me!” he cries. “I have found my lost sheep.” “ In the same way I tell you, there will be greater joy in Heaven over this one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who do not need to repent.

Again, if a woman has ten silver pieces and loses one of them, does she not light the lamp, sweep out the house, and look in every corner till she has found it? And when she has, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says, “Rejoice with me! I have found the piece that I lost.” In the same way, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over 0ne sinner who repents

Again He said, “There once was a man who had two sons; and the younger said to his father; “Father, give me my share of the property. ”So. He divided his estate between them. A few days later the younger son turned the whole of his share into cash and left home for a distant country where he squandered it in reckless living

He had spent it all, when a severe famine fell upon that country and he began to feel the pinch. So he went and attached himself to one of the local landowners, who sent him on to his farm to mind the pigs. He would have been glad to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.

Then he came to his senses and said,” How many of my father’s paid servants have more food than they can eat, and here am I starving to death, I will set off and go to my father; and I will say to him,” Father, I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son”. Treat me as one of your paid servants. “ So he set out for his father’s house. But while he was still a long way off his father saw him, and his heart went out to him. He ran to meet him, flung his arms round him, and kissed him. The son said,” Father, I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.”

But the father said to his servants,” quick, bring a robe, my best one, and put it on him, put a ring on his finger, and shoes for his feet, Bring the fatted calf and kill it. And let us have a feast to celebrate the day. For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life he was lost and is found”. And the festivities began

Now the elder son was out on the farm, and on his way back, as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what it meant. The servant told him, “your brother has come home and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has him back safe and sound

But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and pleaded with him: but he retorted, you know how I have slaved all these years. I never once disobeyed your orders, and you never gave me so much as a kid as a feast with my friends, but now that this son of yours turns up after running through your money with his women, you kill the fatted calf for him.

“My boy”, said the father, “you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. How could we help celebrating this happy day? Your brother here, was dead and has come back to life, was lost and is found.”

New English Bible

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PARABLE of the GOOD SAMARITAN
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