According to Mark, 3

¹ Once again he entered into a synagogue, and a man was there with a dried-up hand.

² So they were watching him closely to see whether he would cure the man on the sabbath, in order that they might accuse him.

³ And he said to the man with the withered hand: “Get up [and come] to the center.”

⁴ Next he said to them: “Is it lawful on the sabbath to do a good deed or to do a bad deed, to save or to kill a soul?”^*1 But they kept silent.

⁵ And after looking around upon them with indignation, being thoroughly grieved at the insensibility of their hearts, he said to the man: “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

⁶ At that the Pharisees went out and immediately began holding council with the party followers of Herod^*1 against him, in order to destroy him.

⁷ But Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea; and a great multitude from Galʹi·lee and from Ju·deʹa followed him.

⁸ Even from Jerusalem and from Id·u·meʹa and from across the Jordan and around Tyre and Siʹdon, a great multitude, on hearing of how many things he was doing, came to him.

⁹ And he told his disciples to have a little boat continually at his service so that the crowd might not press upon him.

¹⁰ For he cured many, with the result that all those who had grievous diseases were falling upon him to touch him.

¹¹ Even the unclean spirits, whenever they would behold him, would prostrate themselves before him and cry out, saying: “You are the Son of God.”

¹² But many times he sternly charged them not to make him known.

¹³ And he ascended a mountain and summoned those he wanted, and they went off to him.

¹⁴ And he formed [a group of] twelve, whom he also named “apostles,” that they might continue with him and that he might send them out to preach

¹⁵ and to have authority to expel the demons.

¹⁶ And the [group of] twelve that he formed were Simon, to whom he also gave the surname Peter,

¹⁷ and James the [son] of Zebʹe·dee and John the brother of James (he also gave these the surname Bo·a·nerʹges,^*1 which means Sons of Thunder),

¹⁸ and Andrew and Philip and Bar·tholʹo·mew and Matthew and Thomas and James the [son] of Al·phaeʹus and Thad·daeʹus and Simon the Ca·na·naeʹan

¹⁹ and Judas Is·carʹi·ot, who later betrayed him. And he went into a house.

²⁰ Once more the crowd gathered, so that they were not able even to eat a meal.

²¹ But when his relatives heard about it, they went out to lay hold of him, for they were saying: “He has gone out of his mind.”

²² Also, the scribes that came down from Jerusalem were saying: “He has Be·elʹze·bub,^*1 and he expels the demons by means of the ruler of the demons.”

²³ So, after calling them to him, he began to say to them with illustrations:^*1 “How can Satan expel Satan?

²⁴ Why, if a kingdom becomes divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

²⁵ and if a house becomes divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

²⁶ Also, if Satan has risen up against himself and become divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.

²⁷ In fact, no one that has got into the house of a strong man is able to plunder his movable goods unless first he binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

²⁸ Truly I say to YOU that all things will be forgiven the sons of men, no matter what sins and blasphemies they blasphemously commit.

²⁹ However, whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is guilty of everlasting sin.”

³⁰ This, because they were saying: “He has an unclean spirit.”

³¹ Now his mother and his brothers came, and, as they were standing on the outside, they sent in to him to call him.

³² As it was, a crowd was sitting around him, so they said to him: “Look! Your mother and your brothers outside are seeking you.”

³³ But in reply he said to them: “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

³⁴ And having looked about upon those sitting around him in a circle, he said: “See, my mother and my brothers!

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother.”