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One
Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples
began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat
the kernels. Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing
what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
Jesus
answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and
his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God, and
taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for
priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” Then
Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching,
and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. The Pharisees
and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse
Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the
Sabbath. But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the
man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in front of
everyone.” So he got up and stood there.
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the
Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy
it?”
He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, “Stretch
out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was completely restored.
But they were furious and began to discuss with one another what
they might do to Jesus.
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and
spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his
disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated
apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James,
John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus,
Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas
Iscariot, who became a traitor.
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