Healing on the Sabbath

Healing on the Sabbath

INTRO TO THE GOSPEL READING

Reader: On top of a mountain, Peter said to Jesus, “It is good for us to be
here.”
All: And then they heard a voice from the clouds:


Reader: “This is my Son, my Chosen. Listen to him.”
All: Let us listen to Jesus today. (Luke 9:33-35)


GOSPEL READING

Luke 6:1-16
1One sabbath while Jesus was going through the grainfields, his disciples
plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.
2But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful
on the sabbath?” 3Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry? 4He entered the house of God
and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any
but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?” 5Then he said
to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.” 6On another sabbath he
entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right
hand was withered. 7The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see
whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an
accusation against him. 8Even though he knew what they were thinking,
he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand here.”
He got up and stood there. 9Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it
lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to destroy
it?” 10After looking around at all of them, he said to him, “Stretch out
your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.
11But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what
they might do to Jesus. 12Now during those days he went out to the
mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. 13And when
day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he
also named apostles: 14Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother
Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15and
Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was
called the Zealot, 16and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who
became a traitor.


Reader: This is the gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you, O Christ.


Reader: While everyone was amazed at all that Jesus was saying and
doing, he said to his disciples, “Let these words sink into your ears:
All: The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.”
(Luke 9:43-44)

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