¹And He entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having a withered hand,

²and they were watching Him, whether on the Sabbaths He will heal him, in order that they may accuse Him.

³And He says to the man having the withered hand: Arise into the midst.

⁴And He says to them: Is it lawful on the Sabbaths to do good or to do evil? To rescue life or to kill? But they were silent.

⁵And when he had looked around on them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their heart, He says to the man: Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored, sound as the another.

⁶And the Pharisees, having gone out, immediately with the Herodians were giving counsel against Him, how they may destroy Him.

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

⁸and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond Jordan and the around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard as much as He was doing, came to Him.

⁹And He spoke to his disciples that a boat may wait upon Him on account of the crowd, that they may not press upon Him.

¹⁰For He healed many, so as for them to press upon Him that they may touch Him, as many as had diseases.

¹¹And the unclean spirits, whenever they were seeing Him, they were falling down before Him and they were crying out, saying that You yourself are the Son of God.

¹²And much He was rebuking them, so that they may not make Him known.

¹³And He goes up on the mountain and calls near those whom He Himself was wanting, and they went to Him.

¹⁴And He appointed twelve, whom also He called sent ones, that they may be with Him and that He may send them to preach,

¹⁵and to have authority to heal the diseases and to cast out the demons.

¹⁶And He appointed the Twelve, and He added the name Peter to Simon,

¹⁷and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, and He added to them the names Boanerges, which is Sons of thunder;

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

¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

²⁰And He comes to a house, and a crowd comes together again, so that they are not able even to eat bread.

²¹And those belonging to Him, having heard it, went out to seize Him; for they were saying that He is crazy.

²²And the scribes, those from Jerusalem, when he had come down, were saying that He has Beelzebul, and that by the prince of the demons He casts out the demons.

²³And having called them to Him, in parables He was speaking to them: How is the adversary able to cast out the adversary?

²⁴And if a kingdom shall be divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand;

²⁵and if a house shall be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand;

²⁶and if the adversary has risen up against himself and was divided, he is not able to stand, but has an end.

²⁷But no one is able to enter into the house of the strong man, when he had entered, to plunder his goods, unless first he shall bind the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

²⁸Amen, I say to you that all the sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and the blasphemies, as much as if they shall have blasphemed;

²⁹but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness; rather, he is guilty of eternal sin;

³⁰for they were saying: He has an unclean spirit.

³¹And his mother and his brothers come, and standing outside, they sent to Him, calling Him.

³²And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they speak now to Him: Behold, your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside seeking You.

³³And answering them, He says: Who are my mother and my brothers?

³⁴And when he had looked around on those who were sitting around Him surrounding, He says: Behold my mother and my brothers!

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