By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises,<n id="1" /> yet he was ready to offer up<n id="2" /> his only son.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

<p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> they were going away,<n id="2" /> a man who could not talk and was demon-possessed was brought to him.

I brought him to your disciples, but<n id="1" /> they were not able to heal him.&#8221;

Show me the coin used for the tax.&#8221; So<n id="1" /> they brought him a denarius.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> people were bringing little children to him for him to touch,<n id="2" /> but the disciples scolded those who brought them.<n id="3" />

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,<n id="1" />

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus<n id="1" /> healed him so that he could speak and see.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now people<n id="1" /> were even bringing their babies<n id="2" /> to him for him to touch.<n id="3" /> But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.<n id="4" />

A jar full of sour wine<n id="1" /> was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop<n id="2" /> and lifted it<n id="3" /> to his mouth.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer<n id="1" /> the gifts prescribed by the law.

And he did not enter to offer<n id="1" /> himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have<n id="1" /> no further consciousness of sin?

But when this priest<n id="1" /> had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, <i>he sat down at the right handi><n id="2" /> of God,

<p class="bodytext">Endure your suffering<n id="1" /> as discipline;<n id="2" /> God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.<n id="1" />

When the people<n id="1" /> there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.