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The Man with a Paralyzed Hand
(Matthew 12.9–14; Luke 6.6–11)
1 Then Jesus went back to the
synagogue, where there was a
man who had a paralyzed hand.
2 Some people were there who
wanted to accuse Jesus of doing
wrong; so they watched him closely
to see whether he would cure the
man on the Sabbath.
3 Jesus said to
the man, “Come up here to the
front.”
4 Then he asked the people,
“What does our Law allow us to do
on the Sabbath? To help or to harm?
To save a man's life or to destroy
it?”
4 But they did not say a thing.
5 Jesus was angry as he looked
around at them, but at the same time
he felt sorry for them, because they
were so stubborn and wrong. Then
he said to the man, “Stretch out
your hand.” He stretched it out, and
it became well again.
6 So the Pharisees
left the synagogue and met at
once with some members of Herod's
party, and they made plans to kill
Jesus.
A Crowd by the Lake
7 Jesus and his disciples went
away to Lake Galilee, and a large
crowd followed him. They had come
from Galilee, from Judea,
8 from Jerusalem,
from the territory of Idumea,
from the territory on the east
side of the Jordan, and from the region
around the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
All these people came to Jesus
because they had heard of the things
he was doing.
9 The crowd was so
large that Jesus told his disciples to
get a boat ready for him, so that the
people would not crush him.
10 He
had healed many people, and all the
sick kept pushing their way to him
in order to touch him. note
11 And whenever
the people who had evil spirits
in them saw him, they would fall
down before him and scream, “You
are the Son of God!”
12 Jesus sternly ordered the evil
spirits not to tell anyone who he
was.
Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles
(Matthew 10.1–4; Luke 6.12–16)
13 Then Jesus went up a hill and
called to himself the men he wanted.
They came to him,
14 and he chose
twelve, whom he named apostles. “I
have chosen you to be with me,” he
told them. “I will also send you out
to preach,
15 and you will have authority
to drive out demons.”
16 These are the twelve he chose:
Simon (Jesus gave him the name Peter);
17 James and his brother John,
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the sons of Zebedee (Jesus gave
them the name Boanerges, which
means “Men of Thunder”);
18 Andrew,
Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Thomas, James son of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus, Simon the
Patriot,
19 and Judas Iscariot, who
betrayed Jesus.
Jesus and Beelzebul
(Matthew 12.22–32; Luke 11.14–23; 12.10)
20 Then Jesus went home. Again
such a large crowd gathered that
Jesus and his disciples had no time
to eat.
21 When his family heard
about it, they set out to take charge
of him, because people were saying,
“He's gone mad!”
22 Some teachers of the Law who
had come from Jerusalem were saying,
“He has Beelzebul in him! It is
the chief of the demons who gives
him the power to drive them out.” note
23 So Jesus called them to him and
spoke to them in parables: “How
can Satan drive out Satan?
24 If a
country divides itself into groups
which fight each other, that country
will fall apart.
25 If a family divides
itself into groups which fight each
other, that family will fall apart.
26 So if Satan's kingdom divides into
groups, it cannot last, but will fall
apart and come to an end.
27 “No one can break into a strong
man's house and take away his belongings
unless he first ties up the
strong man; then he can plunder his
house.
28 “I assure you that people can be
forgiven all their sins and all the evil
things they may say. note
29 But whoever
says evil things against the Holy
Spirit will never be forgiven, because
he has committed an eternal
sin.” note
30 (Jesus said this because some
people were saying, “He has an evil
spirit in him.”)
Jesus' Mother and Brothers
(Matthew 12.46–50; Luke 8.19–21)
31 Then Jesus' mother and brothers
arrived. They stood outside the
house and sent in a message, asking
for him.
32 A crowd was sitting
around Jesus, and they said to him,
“Look, your mother and your brothers
and sisters are outside, and they
want you.”
33 Jesus answered, “Who is my
mother? Who are my brothers?”
34 He looked at the people sitting
around him and said, “Look! Here
are my mother and my brothers!
35 Whoever does what God wants
him to do is my brother, my sister,
my mother.”
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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