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A withered hand on the Sabbath

¹Once again he went into the synagogue. A man was there whose hand was withered. ²They kept a close eye on Jesus to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath, so that they could bring a charge against him. ³Jesus told the man whose hand was withered, “Get up and come out here in front.” ⁴Then he asked them, “What does the law allow on the Sabbath: doing good or doing harm, saving a life or killing?” They said nothing. ⁵He looked around at them in anger, deeply grieved that their hearts were so hard, and said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” He held it out, and it was made well again. ⁶The Pharisees left, and at once they began making plans with the Herodians about how to destroy him.

Crowds from every region

⁷Jesus went off with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. ⁸Hearing about all that he was doing, a great many people also came to him from Judea and Jerusalem, from Idumea and the land beyond the Jordan, and from the area around Tyre and Sidon. ⁹Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to keep a small boat ready for him, so that he would not be crushed. ¹⁰He had healed many, and so all who had diseases kept pushing forward to touch him. ¹¹Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they threw themselves down in front of him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” ¹²But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

Twelve chosen to be with him

¹³Then he went up into the hills and called to him the ones he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴He appointed twelve to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message ¹⁵with authority to throw out demons.^{a 16}So he appointed the twelve. To Simon he gave the name Peter. ¹⁷James son of Zebedee and John, James’s brother, he called Boanerges, that is, “Sons of Thunder.” ¹⁸Then there were Andrew and Philip, Bartholomew and Matthew, Thomas and James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus and Simon the Cananaean, ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who went on to betray him.

The strong man is bound

²⁰Then he went home, and again such a crowd gathered that they could not even eat a meal. ²¹When his family heard about this, they set out to take charge of him, because they were saying, “He has lost his senses.” ²²Scribes who had come down from Jerusalem claimed, “Beelzebul has hold of him!” and, “It is by the ruler of the demons that he throws out demons!” ²³So he called them over and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan throw out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom splits into sides that fight each other, it cannot last. ²⁵If a household turns against itself, it will not hold together. ²⁶So if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot last; his end has come. ²⁷In fact, no one can break into a strong man’s house and carry off his belongings without first tying him up. Only then can he rob the house.

²⁸Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven all their sins and all the blasphemies they speak, however many they may be. ²⁹But anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness, ever; that person is guilty of an eternal sin.”^{b 30}Jesus spoke this way because they were claiming, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Whoever does the will of God

³¹Then his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside and sent word in, asking for him. ³²A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Look, your mother and brothers are outside, and they want you.”^{c 33}He answered, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” ³⁴He looked at the people sitting in a circle around him and said, “See, these are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵Whoever does what God wants is my brother and sister and mother.”