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¹ And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there a man having his hand dried up.

² And they watched him if he would heal him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him.

³ And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up [and come] into the midst.

⁴ And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.

⁵ And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored.

⁶ And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

⁷ And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,

⁸ and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea and beyond the Jordan; and they of around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard what things he did, came to him.

⁹ And he spoke to his disciples, in order that a little ship should wait upon him on account of the crowd, that they might not press upon him.

¹⁰ For he healed many, so that they beset him that they might touch him, as many as had plagues.

¹¹ And the unclean spirits, when they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried saying, *Thou* art the Son of God.

¹² And he rebuked them much, that they might not make him manifest.

¹³ And he goes up into the mountain, and calls whom he himself would, and they went to him.

¹⁴ And he appointed twelve that they might be with him, and that he might send them to preach,

¹⁵ and to have power [to heal diseases, and] to cast out demons.

¹⁶ And he gave to Simon the surname of Peter;

¹⁷ and James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he gave them the surname of Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder;

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,

¹⁹ and Judas Iscariote, who also delivered him up. And they come to [the] house.

²⁰ And again a crowd comes together, so that they cannot even eat bread.

²¹ And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.

²² And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons he casts out demons.

²³ And having called them to [him], he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

²⁴ And if a kingdom has become divided against itself, that kingdom cannot subsist.

²⁵ And if a house has become divided against itself, that house cannot subsist.

²⁶ And if Satan rise up against himself, and is divided, he cannot subsist, but has an end.

²⁷ But no one can, having entered into his house, plunder the goods of the strong [man] unless he first bind the strong [man], and then he will plunder his house.

²⁸ Verily I say unto you, that all sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and all the injurious speeches [with] which they may speak injuriously;

²⁹ but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the guilt of an everlasting sin;

³⁰ —because they said, He has an unclean spirit.

³¹ And his brethren and his mother come, and standing without sent to him calling him.

³² And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.

³³ And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother or my brethren?

³⁴ And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:

³⁵ for whosoever shall do the will of God, *he* is my brother, and sister, and mother.