3:1 And He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand.
3:2 And they were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.
3:3 And He *said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!”
3:4 And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.
3:5 And after looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
3:6 And the Pharisees went out and immediately began taking counsel together with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.
3:7 And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea,
3:8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.
3:9 And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;
3:10 for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.
3:11 And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, “You are the Son of God!”
3:12 And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.
3:13 And He *went up on the mountain and *summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.
3:14 And He appointed twelve (whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach,
3:15 and to have authority to cast out the demons.
3:16 And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter),
3:17 and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”);
3:18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;
3:20 And He *came home, and the crowd *gathered again, so that they could not even eat a meal.
3:21 And when His own people heard this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”
3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”
3:23 And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
3:24 And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
3:26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!
3:27 But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.
3:28 “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;
3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” —
3:30 because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
3:31 Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him, calling Him.
3:32 And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”
3:33 And answering them, He *said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”
3:34 And looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!
3:35 For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”
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