The Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 19/01-10: “He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’ Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’
أَنْتُمُ الَّذِينَ كُنْتُم مِنْ قَبْلُ بَعِيدِين، صِرْتُم بِدَمِ المَسِيحِ قَرِيبِين
رسالة القدّيس بولس إلى أهل أفسس02/من11حتى16/“يا إِخْوَتِي، تَذَكَّروُا، أَنْتُمُ الوَثَنِيِّينَ في الجَسَدِ سَابِقًا، أَلمَدعُوِّينَ أَهْلَ عَدَمِ الخِتَانَةِ عِنْدَ المَدعُوِّينَ أَهْلَ الخِتَانَة، بفِعْلِ اليَدِ في الجَسَد، تَذَكَّرُوا أَنَّكُم كُنْتُمْ في ذَلِكَ الوَقْتِ بِدُونِ مَسِيح، مُبْعَدِينَ عَنْ رَعِيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيل، وغُرَبَاءَ عنِ عُهُودِ الوَعْد، لا رَجَاءَ لَكُم في العَالَمِ ولا إِله؛ أَمَّا الآنَ فَفِي المَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ أَنْتُمُ الَّذِينَ كُنْتُم مِنْ قَبْلُ بَعِيدِين، صِرْتُم بِدَمِ المَسِيحِ قَرِيبِين. فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ سَلامُنَا، هُوَ جَعَلَ الٱثْنَيْنِ وَاحِدًا، وفي جَسَدِهِ نَقَضَ الجِدَارَ الفَاصِلَ بَيْنَهُمَا، أَي العَدَاوَة، وأَبْطَلَ شَريعَةَ الوَصَايَا بِمَا فِيهَا مِنْ فَرائِض، لِيَخْلُقَ ٱلٱثْنَينِ في شَخْصِهِ إِنْسَانًا وَاحِدًا جَدِيدًا، بإِحْلالِهِ السَّلامَ بَيْنَهُمَا، ويُصَالِحَهُمَا مَعَ الله، كِلَيْهِمَا في جَسَدٍ وَاحِد، بِالصَّليب، قَاتِلاً فيهِ العَدَاوَةَ بَيْنَهُمَا”.
You who were distanced and far off you have brought near by the blood of Christ
Letter to the Ephesians 02/11-16: “Remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’ a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands. remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.
