The Concordant Literal New Testament

Matthew’s Account

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Chapter 12

¹ At that season Jesus went through the sowings on the sabbaths. Now His disciples hunger, and they begin to be plucking the ears and to be eating.
² Now the Pharisees, perceiving it, say to Him, "Lo! your disciples are doing what is not allowed to be done on a sabbath."
³ Yet He said to them, "Did you not read what David does when he hungers, and those with him:
⁴ how he entered into the house of God and they ate the show bread, which he was not allowed to eat, neither those with him, except the priests only?
⁵ "Or did you not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the sanctuary are profaning the sabbath and are faultless?
⁶ Now I am saying to you that a Greater than the sanctuary is here.
⁷ Now if you had known what this is: Mercy am I wanting, and not sacrifice-you would not convict the faultless,
⁸ for the Son of Mankind is Lord of the sabbath."
⁹ And, proceeding thence, He came into their synagogue.
¹⁰ And lo! a man having a withered hand. And they inquire of Him, saying, "Is it allowed on the sabbaths to cure?" that they should be accusing Him.
¹¹ Now He said to them, "What man of you will there be, who will have one sheep, and if ever this should be falling into a pit on the sabbaths, will not take hold of it and raise it?
¹² Of how much more consequence, then, is a man than a sheep! So that it is allowed to be doing ideally on the sabbaths."
¹³ Then He is saying to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretches it out and it was restored, sound as the other.
¹⁴ Now, coming, the Pharisees held a consultation against Him, so that they should be destroying Him.
¹⁵ Now Jesus, knowing it, retires thence. And many follow Him, and He cures them all.
¹⁶ And He warns them that they should not be making Him manifest,
¹⁷ that fulfilled may be that which is declared through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
¹⁸ Lo, My Boy Whom I prefer! My Beloved, in Whom My soul delights! I shall be placing My spirit on Him, And He shall be reporting judging to the nations.
¹⁹ He will not be brawling, nor clamoring, Nor will anyone be hearing His voice in the squares.
²⁰ A reed that is bruised He will not be fracturing. And flax that is smouldering He will not be extinguishing...Till He should ever be casting out judging for victory.
²¹ And on His name the nations will be relying.
²² Then was brought to Him a demoniac, blind and mute, and He cures him, so that the mute man is speaking and observing.
²³ And amazed are all the throngs, and they said, "Is not this the Son of David?"
²⁴ Now the Pharisees, hearing it, said, "This man is not casting out the demons except by Beezeboul, the chief of the demons."
²⁵ Now, having perceived their sentiments, He said to them, "Every kingdom parted against itself is being desolated, and every city or house parted against itself shall not stand.
²⁶ And if the Satan is casting out the Satan, he is parted against himself. How, then, shall his kingdom stand?
²⁷ "And if I, by Beezeboul, am casting out demons, by whom are your sons casting them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
²⁸ "Now if, by the spirit of God, I am casting out demons, consequently the kingdom of God outstrips in time to you.
²⁹ Or how can anyone be entering into the house of the strong one, and plunder his gear, if ever he should not first be binding the strong one? And then he will be plundering his house.
³⁰ He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who is not gathering with Me is scattering.
³¹ "Therefore I am saying to you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be pardoned men, yet the blasphemy of the spirit shall not be pardoned.
³² And whosoever may be saying a word against the Son of Mankind, it will be pardoned him, yet whoever may be saying aught against the holy spirit, it shall not be pardoned him, neither in this eon nor in that which is impending.
³³ "Either make the tree ideal and its fruit ideal, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for by its fruit the tree is known.
³⁴ "Progeny of vipers! How can you be speaking what is good, being wicked? For out of the superabundance of the heart the mouth is speaking.
³⁵ The good man out of his good treasure is extracting good things; and the wicked man out of his wicked treasure is extracting wicked things.
³⁶ Now I am saying to you that, for every idle declaration which men shall be speaking, they shall be rendering an account concerning it in the day of judging.
³⁷ For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be convicted."
³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered Him saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
³⁹ Yet He, answering, said to them, "A generation, wicked and an adulteress, for a sign is seeking, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
⁴⁰ For even as Jonah was in the bowel of the sea monster three days and three nights, thus will the Son of Mankind be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
⁴¹ "Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here!
⁴² "The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here!
⁴³ "Now, whenever the unclean spirit may be coming out from a man, it is passing through waterless places seeking rest, and is not finding it.
⁴⁴ Then it is saying, 'Into my home will I be turning back, whence I came out.' And coming, it is finding it unoccupied, and swept and decorated.
⁴⁵ Then it is going and taking along with itself seven other spirits, more wicked than itself, and entering, it is dwelling there. And the last state of that man is becoming worse than the first. Thus will it be to this wicked generation also."
⁴⁶ At His still speaking to the throngs, lo! His mother and brothers stood outside seeking to speak to Him.
⁴⁷ Now someone of His disciples said, "Lo! Thy mother and Thy brothers stand outside. They are seeking to speak to Thee."
⁴⁸ Yet He, answering, said to the one saying it to Him, "Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?"
⁴⁹ And stretching out His hand over His disciples, He said, "Lo! My mother and My brothers!
⁵⁰ For anyone whoever should be doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens, he is My brother and sister and mother!"

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