6: 1 – 11 As Jesus was walking through some grainfields one Sabbath day, his disciples broke off some of the heads of grain, rubbed off the husks with their hands and ate the grain. The Pharisees saw this and asked him, “Why are you breaking the law by...
5: 33-39 Someone asked Jesus, “John the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?” The Pharisees compared the behavior’s of Jesus’s disciples to that of their own...
5: 27-32 As Jesus was leaving town, he saw Levi, a tax collector, sitting at his booth. He told Levi, “Follow me and be my disciple.” He got up, left everything and followed him. Levi demonstrated the commitment of a true disciple – leaving everything and having...
5: 17-26 As Jesus would teach from village to village, Pharisees (Jews who focused only on the law of Moses) and teachers of the Jewish law (called Scribes, who functioned as lawyers who worked closely with the Pharisees) seemed to always be sitting nearby. They had...
5: 12-16 As Jesus was traveling from one village to the next teaching, he met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed to him with his face to the ground and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” Jesus...
5: 1-11 Jesus attracted crowds wherever he went to teach. One day, he was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and there was a very large crowd listening to him. There were two empty boats at the edge of the water. The fishermen had left them to go wash...
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