Marcos 3

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 said to the man having the hand withered, 'Rise up in the midst.'

⁴ And he said 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 said to the man, 'Stretch forth your 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 — 'You are the Son of God;'

¹² and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.

¹³ And he goes up to the mountain, and does 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 Canaanite,

¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.

²⁰ And come together again does 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 has Beelzeboul,' and — 'By the ruler of the demons he does 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 has been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but has 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 has not forgiveness — to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

³⁰ because they said, 'He has 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, your mother and your brethren without do seek you.'

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 said, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren!

³⁵ for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'