Luke 6:7-17

7 The scribes and the Pharisees ¹were watching Him closely to see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find reason to accuse Him.

8 But He ²knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward *!" And he got up and came forward.

9 And Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?"

10 After ³looking around at them all, He said to him, "Stretch out your hand!" And he did so; and his hand was restored.

11 But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together * what * they might do to Jesus.

Choosing the Twelve

12 It was at this time that He went off to ⁴the mountain to ⁵pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

13 And when day came, ⁶He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as ⁷apostles:

14 Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew;

15 and ⁸Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot;

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

17 Jesus ⁹came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was ¹⁰a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of ¹¹Tyre and Sidon,

Cross References

• 1. Mark 3:2
• 2. Matthew 9:4
• 3. Mark 3:5
• 4. Matthew 5:1
• 5. Matthew 14:23; Luke 5:16; Luke 9:18, 28
• 6. Luke 6:13-16: {Matthew 10:2-4; Mark 3:16-19; Acts 1:13}
• 7. Mark 6:30
• 8. Matthew 9:9
• 9. Luke 6:12
• 10. Matthew 4:25; Mark 3:7, 8
• 11. Matthew 11:21

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "their thoughts"
• [b]. Lit "stand into the middle"
• [c]. Lit "stood"
• [d]. Lit "folly"
• [e]. Lit "in these days"
• [f]. Or "Jacob," also vv 15 and 16