C.R.P. Day 284 - Matthew 9; Luke 7;

Jesus heals the paralytic lying in his bed; Matthew the tax collector becomes his disciple; The Pharisees asks why he eats with tax collectors and sinners?  He answers those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick;  John the Baptist's disciples ask Jesus why they and the Pharisees fast often and why his disciples do not.  Jesus answers them "Can friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?  but the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them and then they will fast";  A ruler came and worshiped Jesus asking him to come lay His hands on his daughter.  While he raise the ruler's daughter the woman with the issue of blood for 12 years touched the hem of His garment and she was healed.  He goes to the ruler's house and tells the crowd that the girl is not dead but sleeping. He took her by the hand and the girl arose;  2 blind men follow Jesus and cry out saying "Son of David have mercy upon us!"; He asks them if they believe that He can heal them, they say they believe that he can, and He touched their yes and they receive their sight. Jesus heals man mute and demon-possessed;  Jesus is moved with compassion for the multitudes because "they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd"  He tells his disciples the harvest is truly plentiful. but the laborers are few;

Centurion’s servant raised from the dead; Jesus traveled to Nain and as he came near the gate of the city he sees a dead man, the only son of a widow;  Jesus tells her not to weep, He comes and touches the open coffin and says "Young man I say to you arise"  The man rises and Jesus presents him to his mother;  John the Baptist's disciples come to Jesus and ask him "Are You the Coming One or do we look for another"?  Jesus tells John's disciples the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor have the gospel preached to them.  The Pharisess and the lawyers reject the will of God, having not been baptized;  One of the Pharisees asks Jesus to eat with him.  Jesus goes to the Pharisees house and sits down to eat.  A woman in the city who was a sinner comes to the table in the Pharisees house and brings an alabaster flask of fragrant oil.  She begins weeping and washes His feet with her tears, and wipes them with her hair and she kisses His feet and anoints them with the fragrant oil;  Jesus tells the Pharisee, Simon, a parable about a certain creditor who has 2 debtors, one who owes him 500 denarii and the other 50; Neither could repay the creditor so he forgave them both;  Jesus asks the Pharisee which did debtor did he love more?  The one that he forgave more;  Jesus then relates how the woman and Simon are the debtors and he's the creditor.  He says to the woman "Your sins are forgiven you".  He tells her also that her faith has saved you, go in peace;