| 1 | And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, |
| 2 | and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him. |
| 3 | And he saith to the man having the hand withered, `Rise up in the midst.` |
| 4 | And he saith to them, `Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?` but they were silent. |
| 5 | And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;` and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other; |
| 6 | and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him. |
| 7 | And Jesus withdrew with his disciples unto the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea, |
| 8 | and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon -- a great multitude -- having heard how great things he was doing, came unto him. |
| 9 | And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him, |
| 10 | for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues; |
| 11 | and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- `Thou art the Son of God;` |
| 12 | and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest. |
| 13 | And he goeth up to the mountain, and doth call near whom he willed, and they went away to him; |
| 14 | and he appointed twelve, that they may be with him, and that he may send them forth to preach, |
| 15 | and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons. |
| 16 | And he put on Simon the name Peter; |
| 17 | and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names -- Boanerges, that is, `Sons of thunder;` |
| 18 | and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite, |
| 19 | and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house. |
| 20 | And come together again doth a multitude, so that they are not able even to eat bread; |
| 21 | and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself, |
| 22 | and the scribes who [are] from Jerusalem having come down, said -- `He hath Beelzeboul,` and -- `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.` |
| 23 | And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary? |
| 24 | and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand; |
| 25 | and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand; |
| 26 | and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end. |
| 27 | `No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil. |
| 28 | `Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil, |
| 29 | but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness -- to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;` |
| 30 | because they said, `He hath an unclean spirit.` |
| 31 | Then come do his brethren and mother, and standing without, they sent unto him, calling him, |
| 32 | and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.` |
| 33 | And he answered them, saying, `Who is my mother, or my brethren?` |
| 34 | And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, `Lo, my mother and my brethren! |
| 35 | for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.` |
