Free The One Year Bible TLB by Tyndale Page B

my power here in Egypt, and how everyone obeys me. And bring him to me quickly.”
    14  Then, weeping with joy, he embraced Benjamin and Benjamin began weeping too. 15  And he did the same with each of his brothers, who finally found their tongues! 16  The news soon reached Pharaoh—“Joseph’s brothers have come”; and Pharaoh was very happy to hear it, as were his officials.
    17  Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to load their pack animals and return quickly to their homes in Canaan, 18  and to bring your father and all of your families and come here to Egypt to live. Tell them, ‘Pharaoh will assign to you the very best territory in the land of Egypt. You shall live off the fat of the land!’ 19  And tell your brothers to take wagons from Egypt to carry their wives and little ones, and to bring your father here. 20  Don’t worry about your property, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
    21  So Joseph gave them wagons, as Pharaoh had commanded, and provisions for the journey, 22  and he gave each of them new clothes—but to Benjamin he gave five changes of clothes and three hundred pieces of silver! 23  He sent his father ten donkey-loads of the good things of Egypt, and ten donkeys loaded with grain and all kinds of other food, to eat on his journey. 24  So he sent his brothers off.
    “Don’t quarrel along the way!” was his parting shot! 25  And leaving, they returned to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
    26  “Joseph is alive,” they shouted to him. “And he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob’s heart was like a stone; he couldn’t take it in. 27  But when they had given him Joseph’s messages, and when he saw the wagons filled with food that Joseph had sent him, his spirit revived.
    28  And he said, “It must be true! Joseph my son is alive! I will go and see him before I die.”
    Matthew 14:13-36
    As soon as Jesus heard the news, he went off by himself in a boat to a remote area to be alone. But the crowds saw where he was headed and followed by land from many villages.
    14  So when Jesus came out of the wilderness, a vast crowd was waiting for him, and he pitied them and healed their sick.
    15  That evening the disciples came to him and said, “It is already past time for supper, and there is nothing to eat here in the desert; send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy some food.”
    16  But Jesus replied, “That isn’t necessary—you feed them!”
    17  “What!” they exclaimed. “We have exactly five small loaves of bread and two fish!”
    18   “Bring them here,” he said.
    19  Then he told the people to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and two fish, looked up into the sky, and asked God’s blessing on the meal, then broke the loaves apart and gave them to the disciples to place before the people. 20  And everyone ate until full! And when the scraps were picked up afterwards, there were twelve basketfuls left over! 21  (About five thousand men were in the crowd that day, besides all the women and children.)
    22  Immediately after this, Jesus told his disciples to get into their boat and cross to the other side of the lake while he stayed to get the people started home.
    23-24  Then afterwards he went up into the hills to pray. Night fell, and out on the lake the disciples were in trouble. For the wind had risen and they were fighting heavy seas.
    25  About four o’clock in the morning Jesus came to them, walking on the water! 26  They screamed in terror, for they thought he was a ghost.
    27  But Jesus immediately spoke to them, reassuring them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said.
    28  Then Peter called to him: “Sir, if it is really you, tell me to come over to you, walking on the water.”
    29   “All right,” the Lord said, “come along!”
    So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. 30  But when he looked around at the high waves,