1Jesus went into the synagogue again. A man was there whose hand was withered.
2They watched him to see if he would heal the man on the sabbath day. They wanted a reason to accuse him.
3He said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand up here in front."
4Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?" But they said nothing.
5He looked around at them with anger. He was grieved because their hearts were hard. He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out, and his hand was made well again, like the other one.
6Then the Pharisees went out. At once they made plans with the Herodians against Jesus, how they might destroy him.
7But Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea. A great crowd followed him from Galilee and from Judaea,
8and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the area around Tyre and Sidon. A great crowd came to him because they had heard about the great things he did.
9He told his disciples to keep a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
10He had healed many people. So all who had diseases pushed forward to touch him.
11When the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down in front of him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."
12But he gave them strict orders not to make him known.
13Then he went up a mountain and called to himself the men he wanted, and they came to him.
14He appointed twelve, so that they would be with him, and so that he could send them out to preach,
15and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils.
16He gave Simon the name Peter.
17There were James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James. He gave them the name Boanerges, which means The sons of thunder.
18There were also Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then they went into a house.
20The crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat bread.
21When his friends heard about it, they went out to take hold of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebub. He casts out devils by the prince of the devils."
23So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables. "How can Satan cast out Satan?" he said.
24"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."
25And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26And if Satan rises up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. He is finished.
27No one can go into a strong man's house and take his goods unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can rob his house.
28I tell you the truth, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and every evil word they speak against God.
29"But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness. He is in danger of eternal damnation."
30He said this because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
31Then his brothers and his mother came. They stood outside and sent someone in to call him.
32The crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."
33He answered them, "Who is my mother, or my brothers?"
34He looked around at the people sitting in a circle about him, and said, "Look, my mother and my brothers."
35"Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and my sister, and mother."