3:1 And He entered again into the synagogue. And there was a man there having his hand having become-withered.
3:2 And they were closely-watching Him to see if He would cure him on the Sabbath, in order that they might accuse Him.
3:3 And He says to the man having the withered hand, “Arise into the middle”.
3:4 And He says to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do-harm, to save a life or to kill?” But the ones were being silent.
3:5 And having looked-around-at them with anger, while being deeply-grieved at the hardness of their heart, He says to the man, “Stretch out the hand”. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
3:6 And having gone out, the Pharisees immediately were giving counsel against Him with the Herodians so that 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 around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude hearing all that He was doing came to Him.
3:9 And He said to His disciples that a small-boat should be standing-ready-for Him because of the crowd— in order that they might not be pressing Him.
3:10 For He cured many, so that they were falling-upon Him in order that all who were having scourges might touch Him.
3:11 And the unclean spirits, whenever they were seeing Him, were falling-before Him and crying-out, saying that “You are the Son of God”.
3:12 And He was sternly rebuking them in order that they might not make Him known.
3:13 And He goes up on the mountain and summons whom He was wanting. And they went to Him.
3:14 And He appointed twelve, whom He also named apostles, in order that they might be with Him, and in order that He might send them out to proclaim
3:15 and to have authority to cast out the demons.
3:16 And He appointed the twelve, even Peter (He put the name on Simon),
3:17 and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James (and He put on them 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 Cananaean,
3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who also handed Him over.
3:20 And He goes into a house. And the crowd comes-together again, so that they were not even able to eat bread.
3:21 And having heard-of it, the ones from Him went-forth to take-hold-of Him. For they were saying that “He lost-His-senses”.
3:22 And the scribes having come down from Jerusalem were saying that “He has Beelzebul”, and that “He is casting-out the demons by the ruler of the demons”.
3:23 And having summoned them, He was speaking to them in parables: “How is Satan able to be casting-out Satan?
3:24 And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand;
3:25 and if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
3:26 And if Satan stood-up against himself and was divided, he is not able to stand, but he has an end.
3:27 But no one, having entered into the house of the strong man, can plunder his things unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
3:28 Truly I say to you that all sins and blasphemies will be forgiven to the sons of humans, whatever they may blaspheme.
3:29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness forever, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
3:30 because they were saying “He has an unclean spirit”.
3:31 And His mother and His brothers come. And while standing outside, they sent-forth a message to Him, calling Him.
3:32 And a crowd was sitting around Him. And they say to Him, “Behold— Your mother and Your brothers and Your sisters are outside seeking You”.
3:33 And having responded to them, He says “Who is My mother and My brothers?”
3:34 And having looked-around-at the ones sitting in a circle around Him, He says “Look— My mother and My brothers!
3:35 For whoever does the will of God— this one is My brother and sister and mother”.
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