Mak3:1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.
Mak3:2 They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
Mak3:3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come forward."
Mak3:4 Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.
Mak3:5 He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Mak3:6 The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
Mak3:7 Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him;
Mak3:8 hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon.
Mak3:9 He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him;
Mak3:10 for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
Mak3:11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"
Mak3:12 But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
Mak3:13 He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
Mak3:14 And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message,
Mak3:15 and to have authority to cast out demons.
Mak3:16 So he appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
Mak3:17 James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
Mak3:18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
Mak3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;
Mak3:20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.
Mak3:21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind."
Mak3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons."
Mak3:23 And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mak3:24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mak3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
Mak3:26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come.
Mak3:27 But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
Mak3:28 "Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter;
Mak3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--
Mak3:30 for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Mak3:31 Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him.
Mak3:32 A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you."
Mak3:33 And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
Mak3:34 And looking at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
Mak3:35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."