Chapter 12 Verses 1-14 Read the Bible verses The disciples were hungry and they were picking grains off of the wheat stems as they walked along on the Sabbath day. The Sabbath is Saturday and it was the day the Jews kept for a holy day of rest. A Jewish leader saw them and said
Chapter 11 verses 1-6 Read the Bible verses John the Baptist had been in prison. King Herod put him in prison because he was angry about some things John said. John heard about the wonderful things that Jesus was doing. So he sent his friends to ask Jesus if he really was the Messiah. Jesus
Chapter 10 Verses 1-4 Read the Bible verses This is a list of the 12 disciples. A disciple is a person who learns from another. Jesus gave the 12 disciples power to cast out evil spirits and to heal. Chapter 10 verses 5-15 Read the Bible verses Jesus told them to go and to preach
Chapter 9 verses 1-8 Read the Bible verses Jesus met a man who was paralyzed (could not walk or move part of his body). Jesus said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven.” The religious leaders thought that was blasphemy (speaking against God) for Jesus to say such a thing. Jesus said that it was
Chapter 8 verses 1-4 Read the Bible verses Leprosy was a skin disease (sickness). In Bible times there was no medicine for it. Leprosy sores made the skin fall off. Fingers and toes fell off. Noses on the faces were gone. In the end the whole body was eaten away. No one wanted to be
Chapter 7 verses 1-5 Read the Bible verses Don’t look at other people and say bad things about what they do. Don’t be telling people the wrong things about them. If we talk about the wrong things other people do, people will talk about us and tell what we are doing wrong. If you are
Chapter 6 verses 1-4 Read the Bible verses We should give gifts to the poor, but we are not to brag about it or to go around telling everyone what we do. Chapter 6 verses 5-18 Read the Bible verses Praying should not be done to show off to everyone how much we pray.
Chapter 5 verse 1 Read the Bible verse Jesus taught on the side of a mountain. Jesus liked to preach from the side of a mountain or from a boat on a lake or sea. The reason was that the hillside made the sound of the voice carry farther and the people could hear his
Chapter 4 verses 1-11 Read the Bible verses The Holy Spirit led Jesus out into the wilderness. This was a grassy field with some trees. It was land that was not used for farming and had just been allowed to grow wild. There were hills and small mountains, there were caves so you could get
Chapter 3 verses 1-10 Read the Bible verses John was a cousin of Jesus. (Luke 1:36) John’s mother was a cousin to Jesus’ mother. John had been a miracle baby, too. His mother had been too old to have children but God made her body so she could give birth to John. God told her