Matthew 9:14-38

Jesus Questioned About Fasting

14 Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

16 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman

18 While he was saying this, a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.”

19 Jesus got up and went with him, and so did his disciples.

20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

23 When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes,

24 he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.

25 After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

26 News of this spread through all that region.

Jesus Heals the Blind and the Mute

27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

28 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”“Yes, Lord,” they replied.

29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”;

30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.”

31 But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.

32 While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus.

33 And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”

34 But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.”

The Workers Are Few

35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 3:1
• 2. Matthew 11:18,19; Luke 18:12
• 3. John 3:29
• 4. Acts 13:2,3; Acts 14:23
• 5. S Matthew 8:2
• 6. S Mark 5:23
• 7. Matthew 14:36; Mark 3:10; Mark 6:56; Luke 6:19
• 8. ver 2; John 16:33
• 9. ver 29; Matthew 8:13; Mark 10:52; Luke 7:50; Luke 17:19; Luke 18:42
• 10. Matthew 15:28
• 11. 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17,18
• 12. Acts 20:10
• 13. Daniel 12:2; Psalms 76:5; John 11:11-14; Acts 7:60; Acts 13:36; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:6,18,20; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16
• 14. S Luke 7:14
• 15. ver 31; Matthew 4:24; Matthew 14:1; Mark 1:28,45; Luke 4:14,37; Luke 5:15; Luke 7:17
• 16. S Matthew 1:1; Matthew 12:23; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 20:30,31; Matthew 21:9,15; Matthew 22:42; Mark 10:47; Luke 18:38-39
• 17. Acts 14:9
• 18. S ver 22
• 19. S Matthew 8:4
• 20. S ver 26; Mark 7:36
• 21. S Matthew 4:24
• 22. Matthew 12:22-24
• 23. Mark 2:12
• 24. Matthew 12:24; Luke 11:15
• 25. S Matthew 4:23
• 26. Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:32; Mark 8:2
• 27. Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17; Ezekiel 34:5,6; Zechariah 10:2; Mark 6:34
• 28. John 4:35
• 29. Luke 10:2