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¹ He wente agayne also in to the synagoge, and there was there a ma that had a wythred hande.² And they marked him, whether he wolde heale him on the Sabbath, that they might accuse him.³ And he sayde vnto ye ma with the wythred hade: Steppe forth here.⁴ And he sayde vnto the: Is it laufull to do good on the Sabbath? Or is it laufull to do euell? to saue life, or to kyll? But they helde their tonge.⁵ And he loked rounde aboute vpon them with wrath, and was sory for the harde hertes of the, and sayde vnto the man: Stretch out thine hande. And he stretched it out. And his hande was made whole like as ye other.⁶ And the Pharises wete out, and straight waye they helde a councell with Herodes officers agaynst him, how they might destroye him.⁷ But Iesus departed awaye with his disciples vnto the see. And there folowed him moch people out of Galile, and fro Iewry,⁸ and from Ierusale, and out of Idumea, and from beyonde Iordan, and they that dwelt aboute Tyre and Sydon, a greate multitude which had herde of his noble actes, and came vnto him.⁹ And he spake vnto his disciples yt they shulde kepe a shyppe for him because of the people, lest they shulde thrunge him:¹⁰ for he healed many of them, in so moch, that all they which were plaged,preased vpon him, that they might touch him.¹¹ And whan the foule spretes sawe him, they fell downe before him, and cried, and sayde: Thou art the sonne of God.¹² And he charged them strately, that they shulde not make him knowne.

¹³ And he wente vp in to a mountayne, and called vnto him whom he wolde, and they came vnto him.¹⁴ And he ordeyned ye twolue, that they shulde be with him, and that he might sende them out to preach,¹⁵ and that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuyls.¹⁶ And vnto Symon he gaue the name Peter,¹⁷ and Iames the sonne of Zebede, and Ihon the brother of Iames, and gaue the the name Bonarges, that is to saye, the children of thonder:¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philippe, and Bartylmew, and Mathew, and Thomas, and Iames ye sonne of Alpheus, and Taddeus, and Symon of Cana,¹⁹ and Iudas Iscarioth which betrayed him.And they came to house.²⁰ Then assembled the people together agayne, in so moch that they had no leysure to eate.²¹ And when they that were aboute him herde of it, they wente out to holde him. For they sayde: he taketh to moch vpon him.

²² But the scrybes that were come downe from Ierusalem, sayde: He hath Belzebub, and thorow the chefe deuell casteth he out deuyls.²³ And he called them together, and spake vnto them in symilitudes:How can one Sathan dryue out another?²⁴ And yf a realme be deuyded in it self, how can it endure?²⁵ And yf a house be deuyded agaynst it self, it can not contynue.²⁶ Yf Sathan now ryse agaynst him self, and be at variaunce with him self, he can not endure, but is at an ende.²⁷ No man can entre in to a stronge mans house, and take awaye his goodes, excepte he first bynde the stronge man, and then spoyle his house.²⁸ Verely I saye vnto you: All synnes shalbe forgeuen the children of men, and the blasphemy also wherwith they blaspheme.²⁹ But who so blasphemeth the holy goost, hath neuer forgeuenes, but is giltie of the euerlastinge iudgment.³⁰ For they sayde: he hath an vncleane sprete.

³¹ And there came his mother and his brethre, and stode without, and sente vnto him, and called him.³² And the people sat aboute him, and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thy mother and thy brethre axe after the without.³³ And he answered, and sayde: Who is my mother and my brethren?³⁴ And he loked rounde aboute him vpon his disciples, which sat rounde in compasse aboute him, and sayde: Beholde, my mother and my brethren.³⁵ For who so euer doth the will of God the same is my brother, and my sister and my mother.