CHAPTER 3
And
He asked
them,
“Which is lawful
on the
Sabbath:
to do good
or
to do evil,
to save
life
or
to destroy it?”
But
they were silent.
Jesus looked around at
them
with
anger
and sorrow
at
their
hardness
of
heart.
Then
He said
to the
man,
“Stretch out
your
hand.”
So he stretched it out,
and
it
was restored.
So
Jesus
withdrew
with
His
disciples
to
the
sea,
accompanied by
a large
crowd
from
Galilee,
Judea,
Jerusalem,
Idumea,
the region beyond
the
Jordan,
and
the vicinity of
Tyre
and
Sidon.
The large
crowd
came
to
Him
when they heard
what great things
He was doing.
And when
the
unclean
spirits
saw
Him,
they fell down before
Him
and
cried out,
“You
are
the
Son
of God!”
He appointed
twelve
of them
whom
He designated as
apostles,
to
accompany
Him,
to
be sent out
to preach,
Andrew,
Philip,
Bartholomew,
Matthew,
Thomas,
James
son
of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus,
Simon
the
Zealot,
Then
Jesus went
home,
and
once again
a
crowd
gathered,
so that
He and His disciples could
not
even
eat.
When
His family
heard about this,
they went out
to take custody
of Him,
saying,
“He is out of His mind.”
And
the
scribes
who
had come down
from
Jerusalem
were saying,
“He is possessed
by Beelzebul,”
and,
“By
the
prince
of the
demons
He drives out
demons.”
So
Jesus called them together
and began to speak
to them
in
parables:
“How
can
Satan
drive out
Satan?
Indeed,
no one
can
enter
a strong man’s
house
to steal
his
possessions
unless
he first ties up
the
strong man.
Then
he can plunder
his
house.
Truly
I tell
you,
the
sons
of men
will be forgiven
all
sins
and
blasphemies,
as many as
they utter.
But
whoever
blasphemes
against
the
Holy
Spirit
will never
be
forgiven;
he is
guilty
of eternal
sin.”
and
a crowd
was sitting
around
Him.
“Look,”
He was told,
“Your
mother
and
brothers
are outside,
asking for
You.”