Genesis 12:1-9                                 

12:1 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

12:2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will  curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

12:4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him.   Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

12:5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot and all the  possessions that they had gathered and the persons whom they had  acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan.  When  they had come to the land of Canaan,

12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh.  At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

12:7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will  give this land."  So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had  appeared to him.

12:8 From there  he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his  tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an  altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

12:9 And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

9:9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the  tax-collection station, and he said to him, "Follow me."  And he got up  and followed him.

9:10 And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples.

9:11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

9:12 But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

9:13 Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'  For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners."

9:18 While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader came in and  knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay  your hand on her, and she will live."

9:19 And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples.

9:20 Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for  twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak,

9:21 for she was saying to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well."

9:22 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith  has made you well." and the woman was made well from that moment.

9:23 When Jesus came to the leader's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

9:24 he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping."   And they laughed at him.

9:25 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

9:26 And the report of this spread through all of that district.