Luke 6:6-19

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.

¹⁷Then Jesus came down the mountain with them and stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

¹⁸They had come to listen to him and to be healed of their diseases. People who were troubled with unclean spirits were also healed.

¹⁹Everyone in the crowd kept trying to touch him because power to heal was coming out from him, and he healed them all.