7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd
from Galilee followed.8 When they heard about all he was doing, many
people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the
Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon.9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have
a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him.10 For he had healed
many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him.11 Whenever the impure
spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of
God.”12 But
he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.
Another
time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 2 Some
of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely
to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3 Jesus said to the
man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.”
4 Then
Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to
save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.
5 He
looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts,
said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was
completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to
plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
In
the seventh year of Jehu, Joash[b] became
king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah;
she was from Beersheba. 2 Joash did what was right in the eyes
of the Lord all the years Jehoiada
the priest instructed him. 3 The high places, however, were not
removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
4 Joash
said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings
to the temple of the Lord—the
money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the
money brought voluntarily to the temple. 5 Let every priest
receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever
damage is found in the temple.”
6 But
by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the
temple. 7 Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and
the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to
the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for
repairing the temple.” 8 The priests agreed that they would not
collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the
temple themselves.
9 Jehoiada
the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the
altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the Lord. The priests who guarded the
entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the
Lord. 10 Whenever
they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal
secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought
into the temple of the Lord and
put it into bags. 11 When the amount had been determined, they
gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With
it they paid those who worked on the temple of the Lord—the carpenters and builders, 12 the
masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for
the repair of the temple of the Lord,
and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.
13 The
money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick
trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver
for the temple of the Lord; 14 it
was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple. 15 They
did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the
workers, because they acted with complete honesty. 16 The money
from the guilt offerings and sin offerings[c] was not
brought into the temple of the Lord;
it belonged to the priests.
17 About
this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then
he turned to attack Jerusalem. 18 But Joash king of Judah took
all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and
Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the
gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael
king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
19 As
for the other events of the reign of Joash, and all he did, are they not
written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 20 His
officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road
down to Silla. 21 The officials who murdered him were Jozabad
son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his
ancestors in the City of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.
23 One
Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked
along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees
said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
25 He
answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were
hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest,
he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only
for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
27 Then
he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So
the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
