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1One Sabbath when Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields, the disciples picked some wheat. They rubbed the husks off with their hands and started eating the grain.[#Dt 23.25.; #6.1 It was the custom to let hungry travelers pick grains of wheat.]
2Some Pharisees said, “Why are you picking grain on the Sabbath? You're not supposed to do that!”
3Jesus answered, “You surely have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.[#1 S 21.1-6.]
4He went into the house of God and took the sacred loaves of bread that only priests were supposed to eat. He not only ate some himself, but even gave some to his followers.”[#Lv 24.9.]
5Jesus finished by saying, “The Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.”
6On another Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, and a man with a paralyzed right hand was there.[#6.6 Some manuscripts have a reading which may mean “the Sabbath after the next.”]
7Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses kept watching Jesus to see if he would heal the man. They did this because they wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong.
8Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he told the man to stand up where everyone could see him. And the man stood up.
9Then Jesus asked, “On the Sabbath should we do good deeds or evil deeds? Should we save someone's life or destroy it?”
10After he had looked around at everyone, he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his bad hand became completely well.
11The teachers and the Pharisees were furious and started saying to one another, “What can we do about Jesus?”
12About that time Jesus went off to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night there.
13The next morning he called his disciples together and chose twelve of them to be his apostles.
14One was Simon, and Jesus named him Peter. Another was Andrew, Peter's brother. There were also James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
15Matthew, Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus. The rest of the apostles were Simon, known as the Eager One,[#6.15 The word “eager” translates the Greek word “zealot,” which was a name later given to the members of a Jewish group that resisted and fought against the Romans.]
16Jude, who was the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed Jesus.[#6.16 This may mean “a man from Kerioth” (a place in Judea). But more probably it means “a man who was a liar” or “a man who was a betrayer.”]
17Jesus and his apostles went down from the mountain and came to some flat, level ground. Many other disciples were there to meet him. Large crowds of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the coastal towns of Tyre and Sidon were there too.
18These people had come to listen to Jesus and to be healed of their diseases. All who were troubled by evil spirits were also healed.
19Everyone was trying to touch Jesus, because power was going out from him and healing them all.
20Jesus looked at his disciples and said:
God will bless you people
who are poor.
His kingdom belongs to you!
21God will bless
you hungry people.
You will have plenty
to eat!
God will bless you people
who are now crying.
You will laugh!
24But you rich people
are in for trouble.
You have already had
an easy life!
25You well-fed people
are in for trouble.
You will go hungry!
You people
who are laughing now
are in for trouble.
You are going to cry
and weep!
27This is what I say to all who will listen to me:
37Jesus said:
39Jesus also used some sayings as he spoke to the people. He said:[#Mt 15.14.]