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Mark 3

¹And he went in again into the synagogue. And there was a man there who had a paralyzed hand. ²And they watched him to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him. ³And he said to the man who had the paralyzed hand, "Rise up in the middle!" ⁴And he said to them, "Is it lawful on Sabbath to do good or to do evil? To save life, or to kill? But they were silent. ⁵And he looked around with anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" And he stretched it out and his hand was restored. ⁶And the Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him as to how they might destroy him.

⁷And Jesus went with his disciples toward the sea, and a great crowd from Galilea and Judea followed, ⁸and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and acros the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great crowd who hard what he was doing came to him. ⁹And he told his disciples to prepare him because of the crowd so that they might not trouble him. ¹⁰For he healed many, so that they were pressing in on him so that those who had afflictions might touch him. ¹¹And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him fell before him and cried out saying "You are the Son of God!" ¹²And he rebuked them my times so that they would not make him known.

¹³And he went up into the mountain and called those whom he wished, and they went to him. ¹⁴And he made twelve (who are called apostles) so that they might be with him so that he might send them out to proclaim. ¹⁵and to have authority to cast out demons ¹⁶and he made twelve, and he place a name on Simon Peter, ¹⁷and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James and he named them Boanerges, which is the sons of thunder. ¹⁸And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddeus and Simon the Canaanite ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

²⁰And he came home (lit. into a house), and again the crowd gathered around him, so that it was impossible for him even to eat bread. ²¹And when those close to him heard him, they tried to seize him, for they said that he was out of his mind. ²²And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebl and that by the ruler of the demons he casts demons out." ²³And summoning them he spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan throw Satan out? ²⁴And if a kingdom is divided against itself, how can it stand? ²⁵And if a household is divided against itself, that household will not be able to stand. ²⁶And if Satan rises up against himself is divided, he will not be able to stand but he has an end. ²⁷But nobody can enter the house of the strong man and steal his stuff unless he first binds the strongman and then he can rob his house. ²⁸Truly I tell you that everything will be forgiven to people, the transgressions and the blasphemies that they may commit. ²⁹But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, he will not have forgiveness ever, but he will be guilty of the eternal transgression." ³⁰He said this because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

³¹And his mother and his brothers came and were standing outside they sent word to him calling him. ³²And a crowd sat around him, they said to him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are seeking you outside. ³³And he answered them and said, "Who is my mothers and my brothers?" ³⁴And he looked at those sitting around him and said, "Behold my mother and my brothers! ³⁵For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and my sister and my mother.

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