3:1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.
3:2 They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
3:3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, ‘Come forward.’
3:4 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.
3:5 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.
3:6 The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
3:7 Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him;
3:8 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.
3:9 He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him;
3:10 for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
3:11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, ‘You are the Son of God!’
3:12 But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
3:13 He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
3:14 And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message,
3:16 So he appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
3:17 James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
3:18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;
3:20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.
3:21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’
3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.’
3:23 And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan?
3:24 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 his end has come.
3:27 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.
3:28 ‘Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter;
3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin’—
3:30 for they had said, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’
3:31 Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him.
3:32 A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.’
3:33 And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’
3:34 And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers!
3:35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’
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