Daily Learning

¹He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. ²They watched him, whether he would heal him on Shabbat, that they might accuse him. ³He said to the man who had his hand withered, “Stand up.” ⁴He said to them, “Is it permitted on Shabbat to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. ⁶The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

⁷Yeshua withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Yehudah, ⁸from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. ⁹He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him. ¹⁰For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. ¹¹The impure spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!” ¹²He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

¹³He went up on the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to proclaim, ¹⁵and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: ¹⁶Shimon (to whom he gave the name Peter); ¹⁷Yaakov the son of Zavdai; and Yochanan, the brother of Yaakov, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸Andrew; Philip; Bar-Talmai; Mattityahu; Toma; Yaakov, the son of Chalfai; Taddai; Shimon the Zealot; ¹⁹and Yehudah Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Then he came into a house. ²⁰The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. ²¹When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.” ²²The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Baal-Zevul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

²³He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ²⁶If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end. ²⁷But no one can enter the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house. ²⁸Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their slanderous speech with which they may insult; ²⁹but whoever may insult the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.” ³⁰—because they said, “He has an impure spirit.”

³¹His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. ³²A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

³³He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! ³⁵For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”