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Matthew 12

The Message Bible MSG

1 One Sabbath, Jesus was strolling with his disciples through a field of ripe grain. Hungry, the disciples were pulling off the heads of grain and munching on them.

2 Some Pharisees reported them to Jesus: "Your disciples are breaking the Sabbath rules!"

3 Jesus said, "Really? Didn't you ever read what David and his companions did when they were hungry,

4 how they entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat?

5 And didn't you ever read in God's Law that priests carrying out their Temple duties break Sabbath rules all the time and it's not held against them?

6 "There is far more at stake here than religion.

7 If you had any idea what this Scripture meant - 'I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual' - you wouldn't be nitpicking like this.

8 The Son of Man is no lackey to the Sabbath; he's in charge."

9 When Jesus left the field, he entered their meeting place.

10 There was a man there with a crippled hand. They said to Jesus, "Is it legal to heal on the Sabbath?" They were baiting him.

11 He replied, "Is there a person here who, finding one of your lambs fallen into a ravine, wouldn't, even though it was a Sabbath, pull it out?

12 Surely kindness to people is as legal as kindness to animals!"

13 Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out and it was healed.

14 The Pharisees walked out furious, sputtering about how they were going to ruin Jesus.

15 Jesus, knowing they were out to get him, moved on. A lot of people followed him, and he healed them all

16 . He also cautioned them to keep it quiet,

17 following guidelines set down by Isaiah:

18 Look well at my handpicked servant; I love him so much, take such delight in him. I've placed my Spirit on him; he'll decree justice to the nations.

19 But he won't yell, won't raise his voice; there'll be no commotion in the streets.

20 He won't walk over anyone's feelings, won't push you into a corner. Before you know it, his justice will triumph;

21 the mere sound of his name will signal hope, even among far-off unbelievers.

22 Next a poor demon-afflicted wretch, both blind and deaf, was set down before him. Jesus healed him, gave him his sight and hearing.

23 The people who saw it were impressed - "This has to be the Son of David!"

24 But the Pharisees, when they heard the report, were cynical. "Black magic," they said. "Some devil trick he's pulled from his sleeve."

25 Jesus confronted their slander. "A judge who gives opposite verdicts on the same person cancels himself out; a family that's in a constant squabble disintegrates;

26 if Satan banishes Satan, is there any Satan left?

27 If you're slinging devil mud at me, calling me a devil kicking out devils, doesn't the same mud stick to your own exorcists?

28 "But if it's by God's power that I am sending the evil spirits packing, then God's kingdom is here for sure.

29 How in the world do you think it's possible in broad daylight to enter the house of an awake, able-bodied man and walk off with his possessions unless you tie him up first? Tie him up, though, and you can clean him out.

30 "This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If you're not on my side, you're the enemy; if you're not helping, you're making things worse.

31 "There's nothing done or said that can't be forgiven. But if you deliberately persist in your slanders against God's Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives.

32 If you reject the Son of Man out of some misunderstanding, the Holy Spirit can forgive you, but when you reject the Holy Spirit, you're sawing off the branch on which you're sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.

33 "If you grow a healthy tree, you'll pick healthy fruit. If you grow a diseased tree, you'll pick worm-eaten fruit. The fruit tells you about the tree.

34 "You have minds like a snake pit! How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so foul-minded? It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.

35 A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard.

36 Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously.

37 Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation."

38 Later a few religion scholars and Pharisees got on him. "Teacher, we want to see your credentials. Give us some hard evidence that God is in this. How about a miracle?"

39 Jesus said, "You're looking for proof, but you're looking for the wrong kind. All you want is something to titillate your curiosity, satisfy your lust for miracles. The only proof you're going to get is what looks like the absence of proof: Jonah-evidence.

40 Like Jonah, three days and nights in the fish's belly, the Son of Man will be gone three days and nights in a deep grave.

41 "On Judgment Day, the Ninevites will stand up and give evidence that will condemn this generation, because when Jonah preached to them they changed their lives. A far greater preacher than Jonah is here, and you squabble about 'proofs.'

42 On Judgment Day, the Queen of Sheba will come forward and bring evidence that will condemn this generation, because she traveled from a far corner of the earth to listen to wise Solomon. Wisdom far greater than Solomon's is right in front of you, and you quibble over 'evidence.'

43 "When a defiling evil spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn't find anyone,

44 it says, 'I'll go back to my old haunt.' On return it finds the person spotlessly clean, but vacant.

45 It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he'd never gotten cleaned up in the first place. "That's what this generation is like: You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren't hospitable to my kingdom message, and now all the devils are moving back in."

46 While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers showed up. They were outside trying to get a message to him.

47 Someone told Jesus, "Your mother and brothers are out here, wanting to speak with you."

48 Jesus didn't respond directly, but said, "Who do you think my mother and brothers are?"

49 He then stretched out his hand toward his disciples. "Look closely. These are my mother and brothers.

50 Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys my heavenly Father's will is my brother and sister and mother."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 in illo tempore abiit Iesus sabbato per sata discipuli autem eius esurientes coeperunt vellere spicas et manducare

2 Pharisaei autem videntes dixerunt ei ecce discipuli tui faciunt quod non licet eis facere sabbatis

3 at ille dixit eis non legistis quid fecerit David quando esuriit et qui cum eo erant

4 quomodo intravit in domum Dei et panes propositionis comedit quos non licebat ei edere neque his qui cum eo erant nisi solis sacerdotibus

5 aut non legistis in lege quia sabbatis sacerdotes in templo sabbatum violant et sine crimine sunt

6 dico autem vobis quia templo maior est hic

7 si autem sciretis quid est misericordiam volo et non sacrificium numquam condemnassetis innocentes

8 dominus est enim Filius hominis etiam sabbati

9 et cum inde transisset venit in synagogam eorum

10 et ecce homo manum habens aridam et interrogabant eum dicentes si licet sabbatis curare ut accusarent eum

11 ipse autem dixit illis quis erit ex vobis homo qui habeat ovem unam et si ceciderit haec sabbatis in foveam nonne tenebit et levabit eam

12 quanto magis melior est homo ove itaque licet sabbatis benefacere

13 tunc ait homini extende manum tuam et extendit et restituta est sanitati sicut altera

14 exeuntes autem Pharisaei consilium faciebant adversus eum quomodo eum perderent

15 Iesus autem sciens recessit inde et secuti sunt eum multi et curavit eos omnes

16 et praecepit eis ne manifestum eum facerent

17 ut adimpleretur quod dictum est per Esaiam prophetam dicentem

18 ecce puer meus quem elegi dilectus meus in quo bene placuit animae meae ponam spiritum meum super eum et iudicium gentibus nuntiabit

19 non contendet neque clamabit neque audiet aliquis in plateis vocem eius

20 harundinem quassatam non confringet et linum fumigans non extinguet donec eiciat ad victoriam iudicium

21 et in nomine eius gentes sperabunt

22 tunc oblatus est ei daemonium habens caecus et mutus et curavit eum ita ut loqueretur et videret

23 et stupebant omnes turbae et dicebant numquid hic est Filius David

24 Pharisaei autem audientes dixerunt hic non eicit daemones nisi in Beelzebub principe daemoniorum

25 Iesus autem sciens cogitationes eorum dixit eis omne regnum divisum contra se desolatur et omnis civitas vel domus divisa contra se non stabit

26 et si Satanas Satanan eicit adversus se divisus est quomodo ergo stabit regnum eius

27 et si ego in Beelzebub eicio daemones filii vestri in quo eiciunt ideo ipsi iudices erunt vestri

28 si autem ego in Spiritu Dei eicio daemones igitur pervenit in vos regnum Dei

29 aut quomodo potest quisquam intrare in domum fortis et vasa eius diripere nisi prius alligaverit fortem et tunc domum illius diripiat

30 qui non est mecum contra me est et qui non congregat mecum spargit

31 ideo dico vobis omne peccatum et blasphemia remittetur hominibus Spiritus autem blasphemia non remittetur

32 et quicumque dixerit verbum contra Filium hominis remittetur ei qui autem dixerit contra Spiritum Sanctum non remittetur ei neque in hoc saeculo neque in futuro

33 aut facite arborem bonam et fructum eius bonum aut facite arborem malam et fructum eius malum siquidem ex fructu arbor agnoscitur

34 progenies viperarum quomodo potestis bona loqui cum sitis mali ex abundantia enim cordis os loquitur

35 bonus homo de bono thesauro profert bona et malus homo de malo thesauro profert mala

36 dico autem vobis quoniam omne verbum otiosum quod locuti fuerint homines reddent rationem de eo in die iudicii

37 ex verbis enim tuis iustificaberis et ex verbis tuis condemnaberis

38 tunc responderunt ei quidam de scribis et Pharisaeis dicentes magister volumus a te signum videre

39 qui respondens ait illis generatio mala et adultera signum quaerit et signum non dabitur ei nisi signum Ionae prophetae

40 sicut enim fuit Ionas in ventre ceti tribus diebus et tribus noctibus sic erit Filius hominis in corde terrae tribus diebus et tribus noctibus

41 viri ninevitae surgent in iudicio cum generatione ista et condemnabunt eam quia paenitentiam egerunt in praedicatione Ionae et ecce plus quam Iona hic

42 regina austri surget in iudicio cum generatione ista et condemnabit eam quia venit a finibus terrae audire sapientiam Salomonis et ecce plus quam Salomon hic

43 cum autem inmundus spiritus exierit ab homine ambulat per loca arida quaerens requiem et non invenit

44 tunc dicit revertar in domum meam unde exivi et veniens invenit vacantem scopis mundatam et ornatam

45 tunc vadit et adsumit septem alios spiritus secum nequiores se et intrantes habitant ibi et fiunt novissima hominis illius peiora prioribus sic erit et generationi huic pessimae

46 adhuc eo loquente ad turbas ecce mater eius et fratres stabant foris quaerentes loqui ei

47 dixit autem ei quidam ecce mater tua et fratres tui foris stant quaerentes te

48 at ipse respondens dicenti sibi ait quae est mater mea et qui sunt fratres mei

49 et extendens manum in discipulos suos dixit ecce mater mea et fratres mei

50 quicumque enim fecerit voluntatem Patris mei qui in caelis est ipse meus et frater et soror et mater est