Mark 3

¹ And He entered again into the synagogue. And a man was there, having a withered hand. ² And they scrutinized Him to see if on the sabbaths He will be curing him, that they should be accusing Him. ³ And He is saying to the man having the withered hand, "Rise in the midst." ⁴ And He is saying to them, "Is it allowed on the sabbaths to do good or to do evil, a soul to save or to kill?" Yet they were silent. ⁵ And looking about on them with indignation, commiserating the callousness of their hearts, He is saying to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretches it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶ And, coming out, the Pharisees straightway held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, so that they should be destroying Him. ⁷ And Jesus, with His disciples, retires to the sea. And a vast multitude from Galilee follows Him. ⁸ And from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan, and those about Tyre and Sidon, a vast multitude, hearing how much He did, came to Him. ⁹ And He spoke to His disciples that a boat may be waiting on Him because of the throng, lest they may be crowding Him, ¹⁰ for He cures many, so that they are falling on Him, that whoever had scourges should be touching Him. ¹¹ And the unclean spirits, whenever they beheld Him, prostrated to Him and cried, saying that ¹² "You are the Son of God!" And much He warned them, lest they should be making Him manifest. ¹³ And He is ascending into the mountain and is calling to Him whom He would, and they came away to Him. ¹⁴ And He makes twelve, whom He also names apostles, that they may be with Him, and that He may be commissioning them to herald, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cure diseases, and to cast out demons. ¹⁶ And He makes the twelve, and He places on Simon the name "Peter", ¹⁷ and on James of Zebedee and John, the brother of James, on them also He places the name "Boanerges", which 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 also gives Him up. And they are coming into a house, ²⁰ and the throng is coming together again, so that they are not even able to eat bread. ²¹ And hearing it, those with Him came out to hold it, for they said that it was beside itself. ²² And the scribes who descend from Jerusalem said that "Beelzeboul has he", and that "By the chief of the demons is he casting out the demons." ²³ And, calling them to Him, in parables He said to them, "How can Satan be casting out Satan? ²⁴ And if ever a kingdom should be parted against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. ²⁵ And if ever a house should be parted against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶ And if Satan rose against himself and is parted, he is not able to stand, but is having a consummation. ²⁷ But no one is able to enter into the house of the strong one to plunder his gear, if ever he should not first be binding the strong one. And then he will be plundering his house. ²⁸ Verily, I am saying to you that all shall be pardoned the sons of mankind, the penalties of the sins and the blasphemies, whatsoever they should be blaspheming, ²⁹ yet whoever should be blaspheming against the holy spirit is having no pardon for the eon, but is liable to the eonian penalty for the sin" ³⁰ for they said, "An unclean spirit has he." ³¹ And coming are His mother and His brothers, and, standing outside, they dispatch to Him, calling Him. ³² And there sat about Him a throng. And they are saying to Him, "Lo! Thy mother and Thy brothers and Thy sisters are outside seeking Thee." ³³ And answering them, He is saying, "Who is My mother and My brothers?" ³⁴ And looking about on those sitting around Him, He is saying, "Lo! My mother and My brothers! ³⁵ For whoever should be doing the will of God, this one is My brother and sister and mother."