إنجيل القدّيس متّى 13-9:9
فيمَا يَسُوعُ مُجْتَازٌ مِنْ هُنَاك، رَأَى رَجُلاً جَالِسًا في دَارِ الجِبَايَة، إِسْمُهُ مَتَّى، فَقَالَ لَهُ: «إِتْبَعْنِي». فقَامَ وتَبِعَهُ
وفيمَا يَسُوعُ مُتَّكِئٌ في البَيْت، إِذَا عَشَّارُونَ وخَطَأَةٌ كَثِيرُونَ قَدْ جَاؤُوا وٱتَّكَأُوا مَعَ يَسُوعَ وتَلامِيذِهِ
ورَآهُ الفَرِّيسِيِّوُنَ فَأَخَذُوا يَقُولُونَ لِتَلامِيْذِهِ: مَا بَالُ مُعَلِّمِكُم يَأْكُلُ مَعَ العَشَّارِيْنَ والخَطَأَة؟
وسَمِعَ يَسُوعُ فَقَال: لا يَحْتَاجُ الأَصِحَّاءُ إِلى طَبِيْب، بَلِ الَّذينَ بِهِم سُوء
إِذْهَبُوا وتَعَلَّمُوا مَا مَعْنَى: أُرِيدُ رَحْمَةً لا ذَبِيْحَة! فَإنِّي مَا جِئْتُ لأَدْعُوَ الأَبْرَارَ بَلِ الخَطَأَة
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:7-12.
Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.
Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.”
He warned them sternly not to make him known.