21.When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22.Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23.He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24.So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25.And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26.She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27.When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28.because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29.Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.30.At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”31.“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”32.But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33.Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34.He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”35.While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”36.Overhearing5:36 Or Ignoring what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”37.He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38.When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39.He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40.But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41.He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42.Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43.He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
38.Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39.“Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”40.Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”41.So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42.I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”43.When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44.The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”45.Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
Abraham Tested
1.Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
2.Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
3.Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4.On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5.He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
6.Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7.Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8.Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9.When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10.Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11.But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
12.“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13.Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram22:13 Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text a ram behind him caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14.So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
15.The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16.and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17.I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18.and through your offspring22:18 Or seed all nations on earth will be blessed,22:18 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20) because you have obeyed me.”
19.Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Nahor’s Sons
20.Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21.Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother,
Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22.Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.”
23.Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.
Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
24.His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons:
Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.
