The Turker’s Gospel

The Bible According To Mechanical Turk Workers

Luke 11:21-30

11:21 - When a strong man defends his land himself, his things are at peace.

11:22 - But when someone stronger than him comes, and beats him, he will take from him all the amour which he trusted and divide his riches.

11:23 - Whoever who is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

11:24 - When the demon has been evicted from the man’s spirit, he travels through dry, desolate places, looking for a peaceful spot to rest; when he doesn’t find one, he says, I will go back home where I came from.

11:25 - And when he comes he will find it clean and decorated.

11:26 - He entered, bringing with him seven other spirits more wicked than he; and the final condition of the man is worse than the first.

11:27 - And when he spoke of these things a woman in the company raised her voice and said, blessed in the womb that you grew in, and the nipples which you sucked.

11:28 - But he said, Actually, the ones you are truly blessed are the ones who hear God’s word and do what it says.

11:29 - There was a crowd that gathered around Him and he told them, Everyone wants to see a sign or a miracle, but they aren’t going to see anything except an event that resembles what happened to Jonas.

11:30 - Jonas came onto the Ninevites as an omen, and so shall the Son of man come to us today.