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Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
這時，有幾萬人聚集，甚至彼此踐踏。耶穌開講，先對門徒說：「你們要防備法利賽人的酵，就是假冒為善。
12:2
እስመአልቦክዱንዘኢይትከሠትወአልቦኅቡእዘኢያስተርኢ።
But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
你們這小信的人哪，野地裏的草今天還在，明天就丟在爐裏，上帝還給它這樣的妝飾，何況你們呢！
12:29
አንትሙሂኢትኅሥሡዘትበልዑወዘትሰትዩወኢትትፋለሱ።
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
你們要變賣所有的賙濟人，為自己預備永不壞的錢囊，用不盡的財寶在天上，就是賊不能近、蟲不能蛀的地方。
12:34
ወኀበሀሎመዝገብክሙህየይሄሉልብክሙ።
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
因為，你們的財寶在哪裏，你們的心也在那裏。」
12:35
ወይኩንቅኑተሐቌክሙወኅትወመኃትዊክሙ።
“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
家主若知道賊甚麼時候來，就必警醒，不容賊挖透房屋，這是你們所知道的。
12:40
ወአንትሙሂድልዋኒክሙሀልዉእስመበጊዜኢተሐዘብክሙይመጽእወልደዕጓለእመሕያው።
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
你們也要預備；因為你們想不到的時候，人子就來了。」
12:41
ወይቤሎጴጥሮስእግዚኦለነኑትሜስልዘንተምሳሌአውለኵሉኑ።
Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
主說：「誰是那忠心有見識的管家，主人派他管理家裏的人，按時分糧給他們呢？
12:43
ብፁዕውእቱገብርዘመጺኦእግዚኡይረክቦእንዘከመዝይገብር።
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
主人來到，看見僕人這樣行，那僕人就有福了。
12:44
አማንእብለክሙከመላዕለኵሉንዋዩያሜግቦ።
Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
在他想不到的日子，不知道的時辰，那僕人的主人要來，重重地處治他 ，定他和不忠心的人同罪。
12:47
ወለገብርሰዘየአምርፈቃደእግዚኡወኢይገብርወኢያስተዳሉዘከመይፈቅድብዙኅመቅሠፍቱ።
That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
惟有那不知道的，做了當受責打的事，必少受責打；因為多給誰，就向誰多取；多託誰，就向誰多要。」
12:49
እሳተአምጻእኩለብሔርወምንተእፈቅድዘእንበለአንድዶታ።
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
「我來要把火丟在地上，倘若已經着起來，不也是我所願意的嗎？
12:50
ወባሕቱብየጥምቀትዘእጠመቅወጥቀእትዔገሥእስከእፌጽማ።
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.