| 章 |
| 3:1 |
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.
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| 3:2 |
They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
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| 3:3 |
And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come forward."
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| 3:4 |
Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.
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| 3:5 |
He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
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| 3:6 |
The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
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| 3:7 |
Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him;
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| 3:8 |
hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon.
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| 3:9 |
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him;
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| 3:10 |
for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
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| 3:11 |
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"
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| 3:12 |
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
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| 3:13 |
He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
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| 3:14 |
And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message,
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| 3:15 |
and to have authority to cast out demons.
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| 3:16 |
So he appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
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| 3:17 |
James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
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| 3:18 |
and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
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| 3:19 |
and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;
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| 3:20 |
and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.
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| 3:21 |
When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind."
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| 3:22 |
And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons."
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| 3:23 |
And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
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| 3:24 |
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
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| 3:25 |
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
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| 3:26 |
And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come.
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| 3:27 |
But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
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| 3:28 |
"Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter;
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| 3:29 |
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--
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| 3:30 |
for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
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| 3:31 |
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him.
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| 3:32 |
A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you."
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| 3:33 |
And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
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| 3:34 |
And looking at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
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| 3:35 |
Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."
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