1 On the second Sabbath after the first he was going through grainfields, and his disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
2 Some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath days?"
3 Jesus answered them, "Have you never read even this, what David did when he and his companions were hungry,
4 how he went into the house of God, took the bread of the presence, ate it, and gave some also to those with him, though it is not lawful for anyone but the priests alone to eat it?"
5 And he told them, "The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
6 On another Sabbath as well he went into the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was shriveled.
7 The scribes and Pharisees kept a close watch on him to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so as to find grounds to accuse him.
8 But he knew what they were thinking, and he told the man with the shriveled hand, "Get up and stand here in the middle." He got up and stood there.
9 Then Jesus said to them, "I will put a question to you: On the Sabbath days is it lawful to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?"
10 He looked around at all of them and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored, as sound as the other.
11 But they were filled with senseless rage and began talking with one another about what they could do to Jesus.
12 In those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.
13 When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also called apostles:
14 Simon, to whom he also gave the name Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
15 Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, the one called the Zealot;
16 Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who turned traitor.
17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,
18 along with those tormented by unclean spirits; and they were being healed.
19 The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing everyone.
20 Raising his eyes toward his disciples, he said: "Blessed are you who are poor, because the kingdom of God is yours.
21 Blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be filled. Blessed are you who are weeping now, because you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they shut you out and insult you and reject your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
23 Be glad on that day and jump for joy, for look, your reward in heaven is great; that is just how their fathers treated the prophets.
24 But woe to you who are rich, because you are already receiving your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed, because you will go hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, because you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for that is just how their fathers treated the false prophets.
27 But to you who are listening I say: love your enemies, treat well those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who abuse you.
29 To the one who hits you on one cheek, offer the other as well; and from the one who takes your cloak, do not hold back your tunic either.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes what is yours, do not ask for it back.
31 Just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way.
32 If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to get something, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners so as to get back the same amount.
35 Instead, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting anything back; then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36 Be merciful, then, as your Father too is merciful.
37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
38 Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, they will pour into your lap. For the measure you measure with will be measured back to you."
39 He also told them a parable: "Is a blind man able to guide a blind man? Will they not both tumble into a pit?
40 A disciple is not above his teacher; but everyone, once fully trained, will be like his teacher.
41 Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, yet fail to notice the log in your own eye?
42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck in your eye,' when you do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first remove the log from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck in your brother's eye.
43 No good tree produces rotten fruit, and no rotten tree produces good fruit.
44 Every tree is recognized by its own fruit: people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, or harvest grapes from a briar.
45 The good person brings out good from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil from the evil treasure of his heart; for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
46 Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things I say?
47 Everyone who comes to me, hears my words, and puts them into practice—I will show you what he is like.
48 He is like a man building a house who dug, went deep, and set the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the river crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.
49 But the one who hears and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground with no foundation. The river crashed against it, and at once it collapsed, and the wreck of that house was great."