The New English Bible; 6; Matthew 12-Matthew 13:23

the gospel according to matthew chapter twelve the controversy once about that time jesus to walk on the sabbath through the cornfields and his disciples feeling hungry began to pluck some ears of corn and eat them the pharmacies noticed this and said to him look you are disciples of doing something which is forbidden on the sabbath he answered have you not read what david did when he and his men were hungry he went into the house of god and at the consecrated loaves though neither he nor his main had all right to eat them but only the priests or have you not read in the law but on the sabbath the priests in the tempo break the sabbath and it is not held against them i tell you there is something greater than the tempo here if you had known what that text means

it quiet messick not sacrifice you would not have condemned the innocent for the son of man is sovereign or the sabbath he went on to another place and entered the synagogue and man was there with a withered arm and they asked jesus is it permitted to you on the sabbath their aim was to frame a charge against him but he said to them suppose you had one sheep which pharaoh into a ditch on the sabbath is that one of you would not get hold of it and lifted out and surely a man is worth far more than a sheep it is therefore permitted to do good on the sabbath turn into the man he said stage show to your arm he staged it turned out it was me and so they didn't like the other

but the pharmacies on leaving the synagogue made a plot to do away with him jesus was aware of it and withdrew many followed and he cured all who wear a deal and he gave st injunctions but they were not to make it known this was in fulfillment of eyes i as prophesied here is my servant who might have chosen my beloved on home my favorites i will go to my spirit upon him and he will proclaim judgment among the nation's he will not strike he will not show nor will his voice the head in the streets he will not snap off the broken read norse snuff out the small living week on duty he leads justice on to victory in him the nation show

please don't hold then they brought him a man who was possessed he was blind and dumb and jesus cured in restoring bald speech and side of bystanders were all amazed and the woodwind ground can this be the son of david when the fantasies had that they said it is only by the housing the prince of devil's that this man drives the devils are and he knew what was in their minds so we said to them every kingdom divided against itself goes to ruin and no town know so that is divided against itself can stand and if it is satan who cost so satan satan has divided against himself how then can his kingdom stand and if it is by diaz

about that i cast out devils by going to your own people drive them out if this is your argument they themselves will refute you but if it is by the spirit of god but i drive out the devil's baby show and the kingdom of god has already come up on you or good how can anyone break into a strongman sounds and make off with his goods on this year's first tried the strong man up before the ransacking the house he you is not with me is against me and hugh does not done with me skechers and so i tell you there's no sin no surrender is beyond forgiveness for men except slanderous spoken against the spigot and that will not be forgiven any man who

speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven but if anyone speaks against the holy spirit for him there is no forgiveness either in this age or in the age to come either make the clique good and its fruit good or make the tree bed and its fruit bad you can count three bites fruit you fight push broom and how kenya words be good when you your sales or leave you for the words the actors come from the overthrowing of the hot a good that produces good from the star of good within himself and that even a man from even within produces even though i tell you this that is not a thoughtless word that comes from insolence

but they will have to account for that on the day of judgment for a lot of your own money you will be acquitted on to your own mouth you will be condemned and this some of the doctors of the law and the pharmacies said meister we should like you to show us a sign he answered it is a weakened god this generation that asks for a sign and the only sign that will be given it is a sign of the prophet jonah jordan was in the sea monsters barely for three days and three nights and in the same way the son of man will be three days and three nights in the bowels of the years at the judgment when this generation is on trial the minimum you'd never would appeal against it and ensure its condemnation oh they repented at the

preaching of georgia and what is here is greater than jordan's the queen of the south would appear at the judgment when this generation is on trial and ensure its condemnation or she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and what is here is greater but salama when an unclean spirit comes out of a man it warned others over the deserts seeking out resting place and finding none it says i will go back to the home i lived so it returns and fines the hosts unoccupied swept clean and tidy off it goes and collects seven other spirits more wicked land itself and they all come in and

settle down and in the end the man's plight is worse than before that is how it will be with this wicked generation he was still speaking to the program his mother and brother disappeared they stood outside wanted to speak to him someone said your mother and your brother is out here i'm saying that they want to speak to you jesus turned to the man who brought the message and said who is my mother who are my brothers and pointing to the disciples he said here i my mother and my brothers whoever does the wu of my heavenly father is my brother my sister my mother jesus where'd don't have set beside the league where so many people gathered around him

but he had to get into a boat he sat there and all the people stood on the shore he spoke to them in power moves at some length he said the sore wait don't to so and as he sold some seed fail along the food costs and the birds came and did it up some seed fail on rocky ground where it had little solo it's sprouted quickly because it had no depth the lives and when the sun rose the young corpsman was scorched and as it had nor owned it withered away some seed fail among thistles and the thistles shot up and short the court and some of the seed fail into good sort of where they bore fruit eugene a hundred for or it might be sixty forty

or fifty four and if you have ears made here the disciples went up to him and asked why do you speak to them in power poles he replied it has been granted to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven but to those others it has not been granted for the man who has will be given more to it has enough time to spare and the man who has not will forfeit even what he has that is why i speak to them in power bills for the world without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding there's a prophecy of eyes i have which is being fulfilled for them you will he didn't he had but never understand you're going to talk but never see for this people has grown gross and hot

thirty years ago and that it is a closed otherwise that eyes might see there is here and they're hard to understand and then they might turn again and i would kill them but happy are your eyes because they see at your ears because they hear many prophets and saints i tell you desire to see what you know see he had never saw it to hear what you hear it never have that you then they hear the powerball of the saw when a man hears the word the tales of the kingdom but feels to understand it the evil one comes and patti's off what has been sewn in his heart that you had the seeds sown along the food box the seeds sown on rocky ground stands for the man who on hearing the word accepts it at once with joy but as it

strikes no route in him he has no staying power and when there is trouble or persecution on account of the world he falls away at once the seed so among thistles represents the man who hears the word but worldly cares and the force glamour wealth chocolate and it proves bottom but the seeds that they'll into good soil is the man who hears the word abd understands it who accordingly bears fruit and you lose a hundred fold or it maybe sixty four and all our city forward the mission concludes at chapter thirteen first right to rise but