10 Now there was a famine in the land,
and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was
severe.
11 As he was about to enter
Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say,
‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be
treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
14 When Abram came to Egypt, the
Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her
to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.
16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired
sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
17 But the LORD inflicted serious
diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you
done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so
that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram
to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
Matthew 9:9-17
The Calling of Matthew
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew
sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he
told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner
at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and
his disciples.
11 When the Pharisees
saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax
collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said,
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
13 But go and learn
what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I
have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
14 Then John’s disciples came and
asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples
do not fast?”
15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The
time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will
fast.
16 “No one sews
a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from
the garment, making the tear worse.
17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If
they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be
ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are
preserved.”
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