New Testament in a Year

Jesus Heals a Man on the Sabbath

3 ^(A)And He ^(B)entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand. ^2 (C)And they were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, ^(D)so that they might accuse Him. ³ And He *said to the man with the withered hand, “^[a]Get up and come forward!” ⁴ And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ And after ^(E)looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶ And the Pharisees went out and immediately began taking counsel together with the ^(F)Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

^7 (G)And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and ^(H)a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea, ⁸ and from Jerusalem, and from ^(I)Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of ^(J)Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him. ^9 (K)And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him; ¹⁰ for He had ^(L)healed many, with the result that all those who had ^(M)afflictions pressed around Him in order to ^(N)touch Him. ¹¹ And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, “You are ^(O)the Son of God!” ¹² And He ^(P)earnestly warned them not to ^[b]tell who He was.

Jesus Appoints the Twelve

¹³ And He *went up on ^(Q)the mountain and *^(R)summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ And He appointed twelve ^[c](whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out the demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the twelve: ^(S)Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), ¹⁷ and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the ^[d]Zealot; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.