Genesis 22:1b-19
19Abraham returned to his servants, and they went to Beersheba together, and he lived there.
Psalm 113
1Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: 2Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power. 3The sea looked, and it fled. The Jordan was turned back again. 4The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep. 5What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again? 6What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep? 7Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob. 8He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters. 9Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory.
Matthew 9:1-8
1And climbing into a boat, he crossed the sea, and he arrived at his own city. 2And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Be strengthened in faith, son; your sins are forgiven you.” 3And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves, “He is blaspheming.” 4And when Jesus had perceived their thoughts, he said: “Why do you think such evil in your hearts? 5Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’ 6But, so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he then said to the paralytic, “Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house.” 7And he arose and went into his house. 8Then the crowd, seeing this, was frightened, and they glorified God, who gave such power to men.