Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!Luke 6:22+The Beatitudes – the HatedWe all desire to be liked. N...  Read More

Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.Luke 6:21b+The Beatitudes – the WeepingWe cry for many reasons—joy, sadness, anger, fear. Tears have a way of cleansing us. They also expose our true ...  Read More

Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.Luke 6:21a+The Beatitudes – the HungryThe previous Beatitude spoke of being poor. And as often happens, where there is poverty, there is ...  Read More

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.Luke 6:20+The Beatitudes – the PoorJust like at the Sermon on the Mount, the first w...  Read More

And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to ...  Read More

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, wh...  Read More

6 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the...  Read More

On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is n...  Read More

33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guest...  Read More

27 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.29 And Levi made him a grea...  Read More

17 On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord wa...  Read More

12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus stretched ou...  Read More