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إنجيل القدّيس لوقا 8-1:18
وقَالَ لَهُم يَسُوعُ مَثَلاً في أَنَّهُ يَنْبَغي أَنْ يُصَلُّوا كُلَّ حِينٍ وَلا يَمَلُّوا،
قَال: «كانَ في إِحْدَى المُدُنِ قَاضٍ لا يَخَافُ اللهَ وَلا يَهَابُ النَّاس.
وَكانَ في تِلْكَ المَدِينَةِ أَرْمَلَةٌ تَأْتِي إِلَيْهِ قَائِلَة: أَنْصِفْني مِنْ خَصْمي!
وظَلَّ يَرْفُضُ طَلَبَها مُدَّةً مِنَ الزَّمَن، ولكِنْ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ قَالَ في نَفْسِهِ: حَتَّى ولَوكُنْتُ لا أَخَافُ اللهَ وَلا أَهَابُ النَّاس،
فَلأَنَّ هذِهِ الأَرْمَلةَ تُزْعِجُني سَأُنْصِفُها، لِئَلاَّ تَظَلَّ تَأْتِي إِلى غَيْرِ نِهَايةٍ فَتُوجِعَ رَأْسِي!».
ثُمَّ قالَ الرَّبّ: إِسْمَعُوا مَا يَقُولُ قَاضِي الظُّلْم.
أَلا يُنْصِفُ اللهُ مُخْتَارِيهِ الصَّارِخِينَ إِلَيْهِ لَيْلَ نَهَار، ولو تَمَهَّلَ في الٱسْتِجَابَةِ لَهُم؟
أَقُولُ لَكُم: إِنَّهُ سَيُنْصِفُهُم سَرِيعًا. ولكِنْ مَتَى جَاءَ ٱبْنُ الإِنْسَان، أَتُراهُ يَجِدُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ إِيْمَانًا؟
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 6:1-5.
While he was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those (who were) with him were hungry?
(How) he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions.”
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”