Monday, February 27, 2012

Genesis 13:10-18 and Matthew 9:27-34 (NIV)


Genesis 13:10-18
10  Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
11  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
12  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13  Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
14  The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
15  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
17  Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
18  So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.

Matthew 9:27-34

27  As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
28  When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”  “Yes, Lord,” they replied. 
29  Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; 
30  and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 
31  But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
32  While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus. 
33  And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”
34  But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.” 

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