New English Translation

Luke 12:10-16 New English Translation (NET)

10. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

11. But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

12. for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”

13. Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14. But Jesus said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?”

15. Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

16. He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,