Luke 6:1-19

Christian Standard Bible

Lord of the Sabbath

6 On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields.^(A) His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. ² But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ^(B)

³ Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry— ⁴ how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?^(C) He even gave some to those who were with him.”^{(D) 5} Then he told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

⁶ On another Sabbath^(E) he entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was shriveled. ⁷ The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely,^(F) to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against him.^{(G) 8} But he knew their thoughts^(H) and told the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand here.”^[a] So he got up and stood there. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”^{(I) 10} After looking around at them all,^(J) he told him, “Stretch out your hand.”^(K) He did, and his hand was restored.^{[b] 11} They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

The Twelve Apostles

¹² During those days he went out to the mountain to pray^(L) and spent all night in prayer to God. ¹³ When daylight came, he summoned his disciples,^(M) and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:^{(N) 14} Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; ¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas;^(O) James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Teaching and Healing

¹⁷ After coming down with them, he stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.^{(P) 18} They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those tormented by unclean spirits were made well. ¹⁹ The whole crowd was trying to touch him,^(Q) because power was coming out from him and healing them all.^(R)