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# Luke 9

Luke 9 is chapter 9 of 24 in the Gospel of Luke. Here are all 62 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ sends forth his apostles, feeds five thousand with five loaves, is transfigured and casts out a devil.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Luke 9 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then calling together the twelve Apostles, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.
2. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the infirm.
3. And he said to them: “You should take nothing for the journey, neither staff, nor traveling bag, nor bread, nor money; and you should not have two tunics.
4. And into whatever house you shall enter, lodge there, and do not move away from there.
5. And whoever will not have received you, upon departing from that city, shake off even the dust on your feet, as a testimony against them.”
6. And going forth, they traveled around, through the towns, evangelizing and curing everywhere.
7. Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all the things that were being done by him, but he doubted, because it was said
8. by some, “For John has risen from the dead,” yet truly, by others, “For Elijah has appeared,” and by still others, “For one of the prophets from of old has risen again.”
9. And Herod said: “I beheaded John. So then, who is this, about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.
10. And when the Apostles returned, they explained to him all the things that they had done. And taking them with him, he withdrew to a deserted place apart, which belongs to Bethsaida.
11. But when the crowd had realized this, they followed him. And he received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God. And those who were in need of cures, he healed.
12. Then the day began to decline. And drawing near, the twelve said to him: “Dismiss the crowds, so that, by going into the surrounding towns and villages, they may separate and find food. For we are here in a deserted place.”
13. But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “There is with us no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we are to go and buy food for this entire multitude.”
14. Now there were about five thousand men. So he said to his disciples, “Have them recline to eat in groups of fifty.”
15. And they did so. And they caused them all to recline to eat.
16. Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish, he gazed up to heaven, and he blessed and broke and distributed them to his disciples, in order to set them before the crowd.
17. And they all ate and were satisfied. And twelve baskets of fragments were taken up, which were left over from them.
18. And it happened that, when he was praying alone, his disciples also were with him, and he questioned them, saying: “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”
19. But they answered by saying: “John the Baptist. But some say Elijah. Yet truly, others say that one of the prophets from before has risen again.”
20. Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” In response, Simon Peter said, “The Christ of God.”
21. But speaking sharply to them, he instructed them not to tell this to anyone,
22. saying, “For the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again.”
23. Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
24. For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.
25. For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?
26. For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words: of him the Son of man will be ashamed, when he will have arrived in his majesty and that of his Father and of the holy Angels.
27. And yet, I tell you a truth: There are some standing here who shall not taste death, until they see the kingdom of God.”
28. And it happened that, about eight days after these words, he took Peter and James and John, and he ascended onto a mountain, so that he might pray.
29. And while he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was altered, and his vestment became white and shining.
30. And behold, two men were talking with him. And these were Moses and Elijah, appearing in majesty.
31. And they spoke of his departure, which he would accomplish at Jerusalem.
32. Yet truly, Peter and those who were with him were weighed down by sleep. And becoming alert, they saw his majesty and the two men who were standing with him.
33. And it happened that, as these were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus: “Teacher, it is good for us to be here. And so, let us make three tabernacles: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” For he did not know what he was saying.
34. Then, as he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And as these were entering into the cloud, they were afraid.
35. And a voice came from the cloud, saying: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
36. And while the voice was being uttered, Jesus was found to be alone. And they were silent and told no one, in those days, any of these things, which they had seen.
37. But it happened on the following day that, as they were descending from the mountain, a great crowd met him.
38. And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you, look kindly on my son, for he is my only son.
39. And behold, a spirit takes hold of him, and he suddenly cries out, and it throws him down and convulses him, so that he foams. And though it tears him apart, it leaves him only with difficulty.
40. And I asked your disciples to cast him out, and they were unable.”
41. And in response, Jesus said: “O unfaithful and perverse generation! How long will I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.”
42. And as he was approaching him, the demon threw him down and convulsed him.
43. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and he healed the boy, and he restored him to his father.
44. And all were astonished at the greatness of God. And as everyone was wondering over all that he was doing, he said to his disciples: “You must set these words in your hearts. For it shall be that the Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men.”
45. But they did not understand this word, and it was concealed from them, so that they did not perceive it. And they were afraid to question him about this word.
46. Now an idea entered into them, as to which of them was greater.
47. But Jesus, perceiving the thoughts of their hearts, took a child and stood him beside him.
48. And he said to them: “Whoever will receive this child in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives him who sent me. For whoever is the lesser among you all, the same is greater.”
49. And responding, John said: “Teacher, we saw a certain one casting out demons in your name. And we prohibited him, for he does not follow with us.”
50. And Jesus said to him: “Do not prohibit him. For whoever is not against you, is for you.”
51. Now it happened that, while the days of his dissipation were being completed, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.
52. And he sent messengers before his face. And going on, they entered into a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.
53. And they would not receive him, because his face was going toward Jerusalem.
54. And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call for fire to descend from heaven and consume them?”
55. And turning, he rebuked them, saying: “Do you not know of whose spirit you are?
56. The Son of man came, not to destroy lives, but to save them.” And they went into another town.
57. And it happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.”
58. Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
59. Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
60. And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.”
61. And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.”
62. Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

## Luke 9 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Convocatis autem duodecim Apostolis, dedit illis virtutem et potestatem super omnia dæmonia, et ut languores curarent.
2. Et misit illos prædicare regnum Dei, et sanare infirmos.
3. Et ait ad illos: Nihil tuleritis in via, neque virgam, neque peram, neque panem, neque pecuniam, neque duas tunicas habeatis.
4. Et in quamcumque domum intraveritis, ibi manete, et inde ne exeatis.
5. Et quicumque non receperint vos: exeuntes de civitate illa, etiam pulverem pedum vestrorum excutite in testimonium supra illos.
6. Egressi autem circuibant per castella evangelizantes, et curantes ubique.
7. Audivit autem Herodes tetrarcha omnia quæ fiebant ab eo, et hæsitabat eo quod diceretur
8. a quibusdam: Quia Joannes surrexit a mortuis: a quibusdam vero: Quia Elias apparuit: ab aliis autem: Quia propheta unus de antiquis surrexit.
9. Et ait Herodes: Joannem ego decollavi: quis est autem iste, de quo ego talia audio? Et quærebat videre eum.
10. Et reversi Apostoli, narraverunt illi quæcumque fecerunt: et assumptis illis secessit seorsum in locum desertum, qui est Bethsaidæ.
11. Quod cum cognovissent turbæ, secutæ sunt illum: et excepit eos, et loquebatur illis de regno Dei, et eos, qui cura indigebant, sanabat.
12. Dies autem cœperat declinare, et accedentes duodecim dixerunt illi: Dimitte turbas, ut euntes in castella villasque quæ circa sunt, divertant, et inveniant escas: quia hic in loco deserto sumus.
13. Ait autem ad illos: Vos date illis manducare. At illi dixerunt: Non sunt nobis plus quam quinque panes et duo pisces: nisi forte nos eamus, et emamus in omnem hanc turbam escas.
14. Erant autem fere viri quinque millia. Ait autem ad discipulos suos: Facite illos discumbere per convivia quinquagenos.
15. Et ita fecerunt: et discumbere fecerunt omnes.
16. Acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus, respexit in cælum, et benedixit illis: et fregit, et distribuit discipulis suis, ut ponerent ante turbas.
17. Et manducaverunt omnes, et saturati sunt. Et sublatum est quod superfuit illis, fragmentorum cophini duodecim.
18. Et factum est cum solus esset orans, erant cum illo et discipuli: et interrogavit illos, dicens: Quem me dicunt esse turbæ?
19. At illi responderunt, et dixerunt: Joannem Baptistam, alii autem Eliam, alii vero quia unus propheta de prioribus surrexit.
20. Dixit autem illis: Vos autem quem me esse dicitis? Respondens Simon Petrus, dixit: Christum Dei.
21. At ille increpans illos, præcepit ne cui dicerent hoc,
22. dicens: Quia oportet Filium hominis multa pati, et reprobari a senioribus, et principibus sacerdotum, et scribis, et occidi, et tertia die resurgere.
23. Dicebat autem ad omnes: Si quis vult post me venire, abneget semetipsum, et tollat crucem suam quotidie, et sequatur me.
24. Qui enim voluerit animam suam salvam facere, perdet illam: nam qui perdiderit animam suam propter me, salvam faciet illam.
25. Quid enim proficit homo, si lucretur universum mundum, se autem ipsum perdat, et detrimentum sui faciat?
26. Nam qui me erubuerit, et meos sermones: hunc Filius hominis erubescet cum venerit in majestate sua, et Patris, et sanctorum angelorum.
27. Dico autem vobis vere: sunt aliqui hic stantes, qui non gustabunt mortem donec videant regnum Dei.
28. Factum est autem post hæc verba fere dies octo, et assumpsit Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem, et ascendit in montem ut oraret.
29. Et facta est, dum oraret, species vultus ejus altera: et vestitus ejus albus et refulgens.
30. Et ecce duo viri loquebantur cum illo. Erant autem Moyses et Elias,
31. visi in majestate: et dicebant excessum ejus, quem completurus erat in Jerusalem.
32. Petrus vero, et qui cum illo erant, gravati erant somno. Et evigilantes viderunt majestatem ejus, et duos viros qui stabant cum illo.
33. Et factum est cum discederent ab illo, ait Petrus ad Jesum: Præceptor, bonum est nos hic esse: et faciamus tria tabernacula, unum tibi, et unum Moysi, et unum Eliæ: nesciens quid diceret.
34. Hæc autem illo loquente, facta est nubes, et obumbravit eos: et timuerunt, intrantibus illis in nubem.
35. Et vox facta est de nube, dicens: Hic est Filius meus dilectus, ipsum audite.
36. Et dum fieret vox, inventus est Jesus solus. Et ipsi tacuerunt, et nemini dixerunt in illis diebus quidquam ex his quæ viderant.
37. Factum est autem in sequenti die, descendentibus illis de monte, occurrit illis turba multa.
38. Et ecce vir de turba exclamavit, dicens: Magister, obsecro te, respice in filium meum quia unicus est mihi:
39. et ecce spiritus apprehendit eum, et subito clamat, et elidit, et dissipat eum cum spuma, et vix discedit dilanians eum:
40. et rogavi discipulos tuos ut ejicerent illum, et non potuerunt.
41. Respondens autem Jesus, dixit: O generatio infidelis, et perversa, usquequo ero apud vos, et patiar vos? adduc huc filium tuum.
42. Et cum accederet, elisit illum dæmonium, et dissipavit.
43. Et increpavit Jesus spiritum immundum, et sanavit puerum, et reddidit illum patri ejus.
44. Stupebant autem omnes in magnitudine Dei: omnibusque mirantibus in omnibus quæ faciebat, dixit ad discipulos suos: Ponite vos in cordibus vestris sermones istos: Filius enim hominis futurum est ut tradatur in manus hominum.
45. At illi ignorabant verbum istud, et erat velatum ante eos ut non sentirent illud: et timebant eum interrogare de hoc verbo.
46. Intravit autem cogitatio in eos quis eorum major esset.
47. At Jesus videns cogitationes cordis illorum, apprehendit puerum, et statuit illum secus se,
48. et ait illis: Quicumque susceperit puerum istum in nomine meo, me recipit: et quicumque me receperit, recipit eum qui me misit. Nam qui minor est inter vos omnes, hic major est.
49. Respondens autem Joannes dixit: Præceptor, vidimus quemdam in nomine tuo ejicientem dæmonia, et prohibuimus eum: quia non sequitur nobiscum.
50. Et ait ad illum Jesus: Nolite prohibere: qui enim non est adversum vos, pro vobis est.
51. Factum est autem dum complerentur dies assumptionis ejus, et ipse faciem suam firmavit ut iret in Jerusalem.
52. Et misit nuntios ante conspectum suum: et euntes intraverunt in civitatem Samaritanorum ut parerent illi.
53. Et non receperunt eum, quia facies ejus erat euntis in Jerusalem.
54. Cum vidissent autem discipuli ejus Jacobus et Joannes, dixerunt: Domine, vis dicimus ut ignis descendat de cælo, et consumat illos?
55. Et conversus increpavit illos, dicens: Nescitis cujus spiritus estis.
56. Filius hominis non venit animas perdere, sed salvare. Et abierunt in aliud castellum.
57. Factum est autem: ambulantibus illis in via, dixit quidam ad illum: Sequar te quocumque ieris.
58. Dixit illi Jesus: Vulpes foveas habent, et volucres cæli nidos: Filius autem hominis non habet ubi caput reclinet.
59. Ait autem ad alterum: Sequere me: ille autem dixit: Domine, permitte mihi primum ire, et sepelire patrem meum.
60. Dixitque ei Jesus: Sine ut mortui sepeliant mortuos suos: tu autem vade, et annuntia regnum Dei.
61. Et ait alter: Sequar te Domine, sed permitte mihi primum renuntiare his quæ domi sunt.
62. Ait ad illum Jesus: Nemo mittens manum suam ad aratrum, et respiciens retro, aptus est regno Dei.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 551: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2600: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1435: The Many Forms of Penance in Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2583: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 554: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1151: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 556: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 659: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 697: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 516: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 557: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 544: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Be determined, and never give up; a soul which resolves to walk with determination will reach the end.” — St. Teresa of Ávila, The Way of Perfection, ch. 21, 1566 (On this theme: verse 62)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Feb 11, 2027: Thursday after Ash Wednesday — Gospel, Luke 9:22-25
- Wed, Sep 22, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 9:1-6
- Thu, Sep 23, 2027 (computed): St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest — Gospel, Luke 9:7-9
- Fri, Sep 24, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 9:18-22

14 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).