Luke 6:6-19

⁶On another Sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.

⁷The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely, to see if he would work cures on the Sabbath, so that they might find a charge to bring against him.

⁸Jesus, however, knew what was in the their minds, and said to the man whose hand was withered, “Stand up and come out into the middle.” The man stood up;

⁹and Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath — or harm? To save a life, or let it perish?”

¹⁰Then, looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so; and his hand had become sound.

¹¹But the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees were mad with rage, and consulted together what they could do to Jesus.

¹²Now about that time, Jesus went out, up the hill, to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God.

¹³When day came, he summoned his disciples, and chose twelve of them, whom he also named ‘apostles.’

¹⁴They were Simon (whom Jesus also named Peter), and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

¹⁵Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon known as the Zealot,

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

¹⁷Afterward Jesus came down the hill with them and took his stand on a level place. With him were a large crowd of his disciples, and great numbers of people from the whole of Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast district of Tyre and Sidon,

¹⁸who had come to hear him and to be restored to health. Those, too, who were troubled with foul spirits were cured;

¹⁹and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him, because a power went out from him which restored them all.