And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man having a withered hand. 2 And they were watching him whether he will heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they might accuse him. 3 And he says to the man having the withered hand, “Rise to the middle.” 4 And he says to them, “Is it right on the Sabbath to do good or to harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And having looked around at them with wrath, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, he says to the man, “Stretch out the hand.” And he stretched out, and his hand was restored. 6 And having gone out, the Pharisees immediately with the Herodians gave a plan against him, how they might destroy him.
7 And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee [followed], and from Judea 8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude; hearing whatever he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he said to his disciples in order that a boat might be at hand for him because of the crowd lest they crush him, 10 for he healed many, so that whoever had afflictions fell upon him in order that they might touch him. 11 And the unclean spirits, whenever they were seeing him, were falling down before him and were crying out, saying that “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he was rebuking them much lest they should make him known.
13 And he goes up to the mountain and calls whom he was wanting, and they went away to him. 14 And he made twelve [whom also he named apostles] that they may be with him and that he may send them to preach 15 and to have authority to cast out demons. 16 [And he made the twelve,] and he placed on Simon the name Peter, 17 and James the (son) of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he placed on them the name[s] Boanerges, which is Sons of Thunder, 18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the (son) of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also handed him over.
20 And he comes home, and again [the] crowd gathers, so that they could not even eat bread. 21 And hearing, those from him came out to seize him; for they were saying that he was deranged.
22 And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem were saying that he has Beelzebul and that by the prince of the demons he casts out the demons. 23 And having called them, he was saying to them in parables, “How can a satan cast out a satan? 24 And if a kingdom should be divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house is not able to stand. 26 And if the satan rose up against himself and was divided, he cannot stand but has an end. 27 But no one entering into the house of the strong person is able to plunder his vessels unless first he should bind the strong person, and then he will plunder his house.
28 Amen, I say to you that all sins will be forgiven to the sons of men and the blasphemies whatsoever they might blaspheme, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit, he will not have forgiveness for the age, but is guilty of a sin of the age”— 30 for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
31 And his mother comes, and his brothers, and standing outside they sent to him, calling him. 32 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they say to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers [and your sisters] are seeking you outside.” 33 And he answered them, he says, “Who is my mother and [my] brothers?” 34 And having looked around at those sitting around him in a circle, he says, “Behold, my mother and my brothers. 35 [For] whoever does the will of God, that person is a brother of mine and sister and mother.”
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