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1 Then Jesus entered into the synagogue again, and there was a man who had a withered hand.
2 Some people watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him.
3 So Jesus said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up in our midst.”
4 Then he said to the people, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days or to do harm; to save a life or to kill?” But they were silent.
5 Then he looked around at them with anger, grieved by the hardness of their heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
6 Then the Pharisees went out and immediately began to plot with the Herodians against him, as to how they might kill him.
7 Then Jesus, with his disciples, withdrew to the sea, and a great crowd of people followed from Galilee and from Judea
8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. When they heard about the things he was doing, a great crowd came to him.
9 So he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press against him.
10 For he healed many, so that everyone who had afflictions eagerly approached him in order to touch him.
11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out and said, “You are the Son of God.”
12 But he sternly rebuked them so that they would not make him known.
13 Then he went up on the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
14 He appointed the twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and so that he might send them to preach,
15 and to have authority to cast out the demons.
16 Then he appointed the twelve: To Simon, he added the name Peter;
17 James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, to whom he added the name Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder;
18 and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,
19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
20 Then he entered into a house, and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat bread.
21 When his family heard about it, they went out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
22 Then the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul” and “By the ruler of the demons he drives out demons.”
23 But Jesus called them to himself and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but has come to an end.
27 But no one can enter into the house of a strong man and steal his belongings without tying up the strong man first, and then he will plunder his house.
28 Truly I say to you, all sins of the sons of men will be forgiven, even whatever blasphemies they may speak,
29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not ever have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
30 because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
31 Then his mother and his brothers came and stood outside. They sent for him, summoning him.
32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”
33 He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34 Then he looked around at those who were sitting in a circle around him and said, “See, here are my mother and my brothers!
35 For whoever does the will of God, that person is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
The Gospel of Mark