9. Jesus said to the legal experts and Pharisees, "Here’s a question for you: Is it legal on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"
10. Looking around at them all, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he did and his hand was made healthy.
11. They were furious and began talking with each other about what to do to Jesus.
12. During that time, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night long.
13. At daybreak, he called together his disciples. He chose twelve of them whom he called apostles:
14. Simon, whom he named Peter; his brother Andrew; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
15. Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called a zealot;
16. Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
17. Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground. A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there.
18. They came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases, and those bothered by unclean spirits were healed.
19. The whole crowd wanted to touch him, because power was going out from him and he was healing everyone.
20. Jesus raised his eyes to his disciples and said: “Happy are you who are poor, because God’s kingdom is yours.
21. Happy are you who hunger now, because you will be satisfied. Happy are you who weep now, because you will laugh.
22. Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and condemn your name as evil because of the Human One.
23. Rejoice when that happens! Leap for joy because you have a great reward in heaven. Their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
24. But how terrible for you who are rich, because you have already received your comfort.