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Cure of the man with a withered hand
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He went again into a synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.
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And they were watching him to see if he would cure him on the sabbath day, hoping for something to use against him.
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He said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Stand up out in the middle!’
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Then he said to them, ‘Is it against the law on the sabbath day to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to kill?’ But they said nothing.
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Then, grieved to find them so obstinate, he looked angrily round at them, and said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand’. He stretched it out and his hand was better.
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The Pharisees went out and at once began to plot with the Herodians against him, discussing how to destroy him.
The crowds follow Jesus
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Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judaea,
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Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania and the region of Tyre and Sidon, great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him.
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And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, to keep him from being crushed.
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For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him.
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And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, would fall down before him and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!’
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But he warned them strongly not to make him known.
The appointment of the Twelve
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He now went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him
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and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be sent out to preach,
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with power to cast out devils.
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And so he appointed the Twelve: Simon to whom he gave the name Peter,
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James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges or ‘Sons of Thunder’;
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then Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot
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and Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him.
His relatives are concerned about Jesus
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He went home again, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal.
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When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind.
Allegations of the scribes
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The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Beelzebul is in him’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts devils out’.
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So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan?
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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last.
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And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never stand.
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Now if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot stand either – it is the end of him.
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But no one can make his way into a strong man’s house and burgle his property unless he has tied up the strong man first. Only then can he burgle his house.
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‘I tell you solemnly, all men’s sins will be forgiven, and all their blasphemies;
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but let anyone blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and he will never have forgiveness: he is guilty of an eternal sin.’
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This was because they were saying, ‘An unclean spirit is in him’.
The true kinsmen of Jesus
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His mother and brothers now arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him.
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A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you’.
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He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’
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And looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers.
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Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’
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