## Jesus Heals a Man on the Sabbath 

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And He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand. 

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And they were watching Him _to see_ if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 

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And He *said to the man with the withered hand, **"Get up and come forward!"** 

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And He *said to them, **"Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?"** But they kept silent. 

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And after looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, **"Stretch out your hand."** And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 

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And the Pharisees went out and immediately _began_ taking counsel together with the Herodians against Him, _as to_ how they might destroy Him. 

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And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea, 

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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him. 

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And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him; 

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for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him. 

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And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, "You are the Son of God!" 

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And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was. 

## Jesus Appoints the Twelve 

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And He *went up on the mountain and *summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. 

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And He appointed twelve (whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach, 

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and to have authority to cast out the demons. 

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And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), 

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and James, the _son_ of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, "Sons of Thunder"); 

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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; 

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and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. 

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And He *came home, and the crowd *gathered again, so that they could not even eat a meal. 

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And when His own people heard _this_, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, "He has lost His senses." 

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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons." 

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And He called them to Himself and _began_ speaking to them in parables, **"How can Satan cast out Satan?** 

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And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 

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And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 

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And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished! 

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But no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. 

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"Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; 

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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"-- 

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because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit." 

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Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent _word_ to Him, calling Him. 

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And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You." 

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And answering them, He *said, **"Who are My mother and My brothers?"** 

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And looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, **"Behold My mother and My brothers!** 

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For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother."