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Mark Chapter 3 Christ heals the withered hand. He chooses the twelve. He confutes the blasphemy of the Pharisees. 3:1. And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there who had a withered hand. 3:2. And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days, that they might accuse him. 3:3. And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst. 3:4. And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy?
But they held their peace. 3:5. And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him. 3:6. And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. 3:7. But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea, 3:8.
And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan. And they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things which he did, came to him. 3:9. And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. 3:10. For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils. 3:11. And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying: 3:12. Thou art the Son of God.
And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known. 3:13. And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would himself: and they came to him. 3:14. And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might send them to preach. 3:15. And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils. 3:16. And to Simon he gave the name Peter: 3:17. And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder. 3:18.
And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananean: 3:19. And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 3:20. And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 3:21. And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad. 3:22.
And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils. 3:23. And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan? 3:24. And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 3:25. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 3:26. And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end. 3:27.
No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder his house. 3:28. Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme: 3:29. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin. 3:30. Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit. 3:31.
And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him. 3:32. And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 3:33. And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren? 3:34. And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my brethren. 3:35. For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.