New Testament in a Year

6 And it came to pass on [the] second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating [them], rubbing [them] in their hands.

² But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?

³ And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,

⁴ how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that [any] eat, unless the priests alone?

⁵ And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

⁶ And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.

⁸ But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood [there].

⁹ Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?

¹⁰ And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did [so] and his hand was restored as the other.

¹¹ But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.

¹² And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

¹³ And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:

¹⁴ Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, [and] James and John, [and] Philip and Bartholomew,

¹⁵ [and] Matthew and Thomas, James the [son] of Alphaeus and Simon who was called Zealot,

¹⁶ [and] Judas [brother] of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also [his] betrayer;

¹⁷ and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

¹⁸ and those that were beset by unclean spirits were healed.

¹⁹ And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed all.

²⁰ And *he*, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed [are] ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹ Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

²² Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:

²³ rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.

²⁴ But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.

²⁵ Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

²⁶ Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets.