[Matthew 12]

 

             {Mar 2:23-28 & Mat 12:1-8 & Luk 6:1-5 Jerusalem to Galilee.}

             ^12:1 Jesus traveled on the Sabbath through the grain-fields at that time, and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck the tops and to eat them. ^12:2 But the Pharisees saw it, and said to him, Behold, your disciples are doing^* what is not legal to practice on the Sabbath.

             ^12:3 But he said to them, Did you^° not read what David did^*, when he himself hungered and the ones with him; ^12:4 how he entered into the house of God and ate the showbread {Greek: the bread of purpose; and so elsewhere}, which was not legal for him to eat, nor the ones with him, unlawful except for the priests only? {1Sam 21:6} ^12:5 Or have you^° not read in the law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple are profaning the Sabbath and yet are crimeless? ^12:6 But I am saying to you^°, A greater thing than the temple is here. ^12:7 But if you^° had known what is meant by this, ‘I will to have mercy and not sacrifice,’ you^° would not have sentenced the crimeless. {Hos 6:6} ^12:8 For^* the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.

 

             {Mar 3:1-6 & Mat 12:9-14 & Luk 6:6-11; Probably Galilee.}

             ^12:9 And he went-away from there and went into their synagogue. ^12:10 And behold, there was a man who has a dried up hand. And they asked him, in-order-that they might accuse him, saying, Is it legal if one was to heal on the Sabbath?

             ^12:11 But he said to them, What man will there be out-of you^°, who will have one sheep and if this one falls into a ditch on the Sabbath, will he not take-hold of it and lift it up? ^12:12 Therefore, how-much does a man carry more-value-than a sheep? So-then is it legal to do^* good on the Sabbath?

             ^12:13 Then he says to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and it was restored as healthy as the other. ^12:14 But the Pharisees went forth and took a council against him, ^*that they should destroy him.

 

             {Mar 3:7-12 & Mat 12:15-21 Sea of Galilee.}

             ^12:15 But Jesus knew it and departed from there and large crowds followed him, and he healed them all, ^12:16 and rebuked them, in-order-that they should not make^* him apparent; ^{12:17 *}that what was said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, ^12:18 ‘Behold, my young-servant whom I selected. My beloved in whom my soul was delighted. I will be placing my Spirit upon him and he will be proclaiming judgment to the Gentiles.’ ^12:19 ‘He will not have selfish ambition, nor will he cry-out; nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. ^12:20 He will not fracture a bruised reed and he will not quench smoking flax, until he should cast forth the judgment to victory. ^12:21 And the Gentiles will hope in his name.’ {Isa 42:1-3}

 

             {Mar 3:19b-30 & Mat 12:22-37.}

             ^12:22 Then a blind and mute man being demon-possessed was brought to him, and he healed him, so-then the blind and mute man is able both to speak and to see. ^12:23 And all the crowds were astonished and were saying, This is not the son of David, is it?

             ^12:24 But after the Pharisees heard it, they said, This one is not casting forth demons, except in Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

             ^12:25 But Jesus knew their contemplations and said to them, Every kingdom that was divided against itself is made desolate, and every city or house that was divided against itself will not be established. ^12:26 And if the Adversary casts forth the Adversary, he was divided against himself. Therefore, how will his kingdom be established? ^12:27 And if I cast out demons in Beelzebub, in whom do your^° sons cast them out? They themselves will be your^° judges because of this. ^12:28 But if I cast forth demons with^* the Spirit of God; consequently^*, the kingdom of God has arrived-unexpectedly upon you^°. ^12:29 Or how is anyone able to enter into the house of the strong man, and to be ravening through his goods, if he does not first bind the strong man? And then he will be ravening through his house. ^12:30 He who is not with me is against me and he who is not gathering together with me scatters. ^12:31 Because of this, I am saying to you^°, Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit will not be forgiven to men. ^12:32 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, not in the age which is now, nor in the future one. ^12:33 Either make^*° the tree good and its fruit good; or make^*° the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for^* the tree is known from the fruit it has. ^12:34 Offsprings of vipers! How are you^°, being evil, able to speak good things? For^* out-of the abundance of the heart the mouth is speaking. ^12:35 The good man out-of the good treasure in him, is casting forth good things and the evil man out-of the evil treasure in him, is casting forth evil things. ^12:36 But I am saying to you^°, Every idle declaration, whatever men speak, they will be giving an account in the day of judgment concerning it. ^12:37 For^* you will be made righteous from your words and you will be sentenced from your words.

 

             {Mat 12:38-45; no parallel.}

             ^12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.

             ^12:39 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet; ^12:40 for^* just-like Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-creature; so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

             ^12:41 The men of the Ninevites will be standing up with this generation in the judgment and will be condemning it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, more-than Jonah is here. ^12:42 The Queen of the South will be arisen with this generation in the judgment and will be condemning it, because she came from the limits of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, more-than Solomon is here.

             ^12:43 But the unclean spirit, whenever it goes away from the man, it goes through waterless places, seeking rest and does not find it. ^12:44 Then it says, I will return to my house from where I came forth, and it went back and finds it unoccupied, that it has been swept and has been adorned. ^12:45 Then it travels and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself and when it has entered again, they dwell there and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

 

             {Mar 3:31-35 & Mat 12:46-50 & Luk 8:19-21.}

             ^12:46 But while he is still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood outside, seeking to speak to him. ^12:47 Now someone said to him, Behold, your mother and your brethren are standing outside, seeking to speak to you.

             ^12:48 But he answered and said to the one who spoke to him, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren? ^12:49 And he stretched out his hand over toward the disciples and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren! ^12:50 For^* whoever practices the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he himself is my brother and sister and mother.