Matthew 12: Jesus Heals on the Sabbath - Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading
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MATTHEW 12
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His
disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
2
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing
what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions
were hungry?
4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the
consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the
priests.
5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in
the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
6 I tell you that
something greater than the temple is here.
7 If you had known what these words
mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the
innocent.
8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,
10 and a man with a
shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus,
they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the
Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
12 How much more
valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the
Sabbath.”
13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out
and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.
14 But the
Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him,
and he healed all who were ill.
16 He warned them not to tell others about
him.
17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
the one I love, in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
19 He will not quarrel or cry out;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
till he has brought justice through to victory.
21 In his name the nations will put their hope.”
22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and
Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.
23 All the people were
astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the
prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against
itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will
not stand.
26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How
then can his kingdom stand?
27 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom
do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
28 But if it
is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has
come upon you.
29 “Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his
possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his
house.
30 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me
scatters.
31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven,
but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
32 Anyone who speaks a
word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against
the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to
come.
33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its
fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
34 You brood of
vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what
the heart is full of.
35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored
up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in
him.