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Luke (Luk) 6:1-26

Luke (Luk) 6:1-26 CJB

One Shabbat, while Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields, his talmidim began plucking the heads of grain, rubbing them between their hands and eating the seeds. Some of the P’rushim said, “Why are you violating Shabbat?” Yeshua answered them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the House of God and took and ate the Bread of the Presence” — which no one is permitted to eat but the cohanim. “The Son of Man,” he concluded, “is Lord of Shabbat.” On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man was there who had a shriveled hand. The Torah-teachers and P’rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something. But he knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Come up and stand where we can see you!” He got up and stood there. Then Yeshua said to them, “I ask you now: what is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or destroying it?” Then, after looking around at all of them, he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” As he held it out, his hand was restored. But the others were filled with fury and began discussing with each other what they could do to Yeshua. It was around that time that Yeshua went out to the hill country to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. When day came, he called his talmidim and chose from among them twelve to be known as emissaries: Shim‘on, whom he named Kefa; Andrew, his brother; Ya‘akov; Yochanan; Philip; Bar-Talmai; Mattityahu; T’oma; Ya‘akov Ben-Halfai; Shim‘on, the one called the Zealot; Y’hudah Ben-Ya‘akov; and Y’hudah from K’riot, who turned traitor. Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his talmidim was there with great numbers of people from all Y’hudah, Yerushalayim and the coast around Tzor and Tzidon; they had come to hear him and be healed of their diseases. Those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being healed; and the whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power kept going out from him, healing everyone. He looked at his talmidim and said: “How blessed are you poor! for the Kingdom of God is yours. “How blessed are you who are hungry! for you will be filled. “How blessed are you who are crying now! for you will laugh. “How blessed you are whenever people hate you and ostracize you and insult you and denounce you as a criminal on account of the Son of Man. Be glad when that happens; yes, dance for joy! because in heaven your reward is great. For that is just how their fathers treated the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already had all the comfort you will get! “Woe to you who are full now, for you will go hungry! “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and cry! “Woe to you when people speak well of you, for that is just how their fathers treated the false prophets!

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