¹He entered again into the synagogue , and there was a man there whose hand was withered .

²They watched him , whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day , that they might accuse him .

³He said to the man whose hand was withered , “ Stand up .”

⁴He said to them , “ Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm ? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent .

⁵When he had looked around at them with anger , being grieved at the hardening of their hearts , he said to the man , “ Stretch out your hand .” He stretched it out , and his hand was restored as healthy as the other .

⁶The Pharisees went out , and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him , how they might destroy him .

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

⁸from Jerusalem , from Idumaea , beyond the Jordan , and those from around Tyre and Sidon . A great multitude , hearing what great things he did , came to him .

⁹He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd , so that they wouldn’t press on him .

¹⁰For he had healed many , so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him .

¹¹The unclean spirits , whenever they saw him , fell down before him and cried , “You are the Son of God !”

¹²He sternly warned them that they should not make him known .

¹³He went up into the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted , and they went to him .

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

¹⁵and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons :

¹⁶Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter );

¹⁷James the son of Zebedee ; and John , the brother of James , (whom he called Boanerges, which means , Sons of Thunder );

¹⁸Andrew; Philip ; Bartholomew; Matthew ; Thomas ; James , the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus ; Simon the Zealot ;

¹⁹and Judas Iscariot , who also betrayed him .

Then he came into a house .

²⁰The multitude came together again , so that they could not so much as eat bread.

²¹When his friends heard it , they went out to seize him ; for they said , “He is insane.”

²²The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said , “He has Beelzebul,” and , “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons .”

²³He summoned them and said to them in parables , “ How can Satan cast out Satan ?

²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself , that kingdom cannot stand .

²⁵If a house is divided against itself , that house cannot stand .

²⁶If Satan has risen up against himself , and is divided , he can ’ t stand , but has an end .

²⁷But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man ; then he will plunder his house .

²⁸“Most certainly I tell you , all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;

²⁹but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”[#3:29 NU reads, guilty of an eternal sin.]

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

³¹His mother and his brothers came , and standing outside , they sent to him , calling him .

³²A multitude was sitting around him , and they told him , “Behold , your mother , your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you .”[#3:32 TR omits “your sisters”]

³³He answered them , “ Who are my mother and my brothers?”

³⁴Looking around at those who sat around him , he said , “ Behold , my mother and my brothers!

³⁵For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother .”