1 Again he went into the synagogue, and a man was there whose hand was shriveled.
2 They were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could bring a charge against him.
3 He said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Get up and come into the middle."
4 Then he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?" But they kept silent.
5 He looked around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out, and his hand was restored to health, just like the other.
6 The Pharisees went out and at once began plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and from Judea,
8 from Jerusalem, from Idumea, and from across the Jordan; and from around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he was doing, came to him.
9 He told his disciples to keep a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
10 For he had healed many, with the result that all who had diseases were pushing toward him in order to touch him.
11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down before him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"
12 But he warned them sternly not to make him known.
13 He went up the mountain and summoned those he wanted, and they came to him.
14 He appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach,
15 and to have authority to heal illnesses and to drive out demons.
16 On Simon he put the name Peter;
17 James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, on whom he put the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder";
18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite,
19 and Judas Iscariot, the one who also betrayed him. Then they went into a house.
20 And a crowd gathered again, so that they were not even able to eat bread.
21 When his family heard about it, they went out to take hold of him, for they were saying, "He has lost his senses."
22 The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, "He has Beelzebub," and, "It is by the ruler of the demons that he drives out the demons."
23 So he called them over and spoke to them in parables: "How is Satan able to drive out Satan?
24 If a kingdom is split against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 And if a house is split against itself, that house cannot stand.
26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is split, he cannot stand; his end has come.
27 No one is able to go into the strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man; then he will ransack his house.
28 Truly I say to you, the sons of men will be forgiven all their sins and whatever blasphemies they may speak;
29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is subject to eternal condemnation"—
30 for they had been saying, "He has an unclean spirit."
31 Then his brothers and his mother arrived, and standing outside, they sent word to him and called for him.
32 A crowd was seated around him, and they told him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, looking for you."
33 He replied to them, "Who is my mother, or my brothers?"
34 And looking around at those seated in a circle about him, he said, "See, my mother and my brothers!
35 For whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and my sister and mother."