Luke 6:3-16

³Answering them, Jesus said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and the men who were with him?

⁴He went into the house of God, and took the bread of the presence and ate some of it, and also gave some to the men who were with him to eat, even though it was only lawful for the priests to eat it.”

⁵Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

⁶It happened on another Sabbath that he went into the synagogue and taught the people there. A man was there whose right hand was withered.

⁷The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him closely to see whether he would heal someone on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.

⁸But he knew what they were thinking and he said to the man whose hand was withered, “Get up, and stand here in the middle of everyone.” So the man got up and stood there.

⁹Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?”

¹⁰Then he looked around at them all and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

¹¹But they were filled with anger and they talked to each other about what they might do to Jesus.

¹²It happened in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

¹³When it was day, he called his disciples to him, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles.

¹⁴The names of the apostles were Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

¹⁵Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,

¹⁶Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.