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the high ­priest, he en­tered the ­house of God
and ate the con­se­crat­ed ­bread, ­which is law­f ul
only for ­priests to eat. And he also gave some
to his com­pan­ions.”
27  Then he said to them, “The Sab­bath was
made for man, not man for the Sab­bath. 28  So
the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sab­bath.”
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
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An­oth­er time ­Jesus went into the syn­a­
gogue, and a man with a shriv­eled hand
was ­t here. 2  Some of them were look­i ng for a
rea­son to ac­c use ­Jesus, so they ­w atched him
close­ly to see if he ­would heal him on the Sab­
bath. 3  Jesus said to the man with the shriv­eled
hand, “Stand up in ­f ront of ev­ery­one.”
4  Then ­Jesus ­a sked them, “Which is law­f ul
on the Sab­bath: to do good or to do evil, to save
life or to kill?” But they re­mained si­lent.
5  He ­looked ­a round at them in an­ger and,
deep­l y dis­t ressed at ­t heir stub­b orn ­hearts,
said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He
stretched it out, and his hand was com­plete­ly
re­stored. 6  Then the Phar­i­sees went out and be­
gan to plot with the He­ro­d i­a ns how they ­m ight
kill J ­ esus.
Crowds Follow Jesus
7  Jesus with­d rew with his dis­c i­ples to the
lake, and a ­large ­crowd from Gal­i ­lee fol­lowed.
8  When they ­heard ­a bout all he was do­i ng,
many peo­ple came to him from Ju­dea, Je­r u­sa­
lem, Id­u ­mea, and the re­g ions ­across the Jor­
dan and ­a round Tyre and Si­don. 9  Be­cause of
the ­crowd he told his dis­ci­ples to have a ­small
boat ­ready for him, to keep the peo­ple from
crowd­i ng him. 10  For he had ­healed many, so
that ­t hose with dis­eas­es were push­i ng for­ward
to ­touch him. 11  When­ev­er the im­pure spir­its
saw him, they fell down be­fore him and ­cried
out, “You are the Son of God.” 12  But he gave
them ­strict or­ders not to tell oth­ers ­about him.
Jesus Appoints the Twelve
13  Jesus went up on a moun­t ain­s ide and
c ­ alled to him ­t hose he want­ed, and they came
to him. 14  He ap­point­ed ­t welve  a that they ­m ight
be with him and that he ­m ight send them out
to ­preach 15  and to have au­t hor­i­t y to ­d rive out
de­mons. 16  These are the ­t welve he ap­point­
ed: Si­mon (to whom he gave the name Pe­ter),
17  James son of Zeb­e ­dee and his broth­er John
(to them he gave the name Bo­a ­ner­ges, ­which
means “sons of thun­der”), 18  An­d rew, Phil­ip,
Bar­t hol­o m
­ ew, Mat­t hew, Thom­as, ­James son of
Al­phae­us, Thad­dae­us, Si­mon the Zeal­ot 19  and
Ju­das Is­car­i­ot, who be­t rayed him.
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Jesus Accused by His Family and
by Teachers of the Law
20  Then ­Jesus en­tered a ­house, and ­a gain a
c ­ rowd gath­ered, so that he and his dis­c i­ples
were not even able to eat. 21  When his fam­i ­ly  b
heard ­about this, they went to take ­charge of
him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
22  And the teach­e rs of the law who came
down from Je­r u­sa­lem said, “He is pos­sessed
by Be­el­z e­bul! By the ­prince of de­mons he is
driv­i ng out de­mons.”
23  So ­Jesus ­c alled them over to him and be­
gan to ­speak to them in par­a­bles: “How can
Sa­tan ­d rive out Sa­tan? 24  If a king­dom is di­v id­
ed ­against it­self, that king­dom can­not ­stand.
25  If a ­house is di­v id­ed ­against it­self, that ­house
can­not ­stand. 26  And if Sa­t an op­pos­e s him­
self and is di­v id­ed, he can­not ­stand; his end
has come. 27  In fact, no one can en­ter a ­strong
man’s ­house with­out ­f irst ty­i ng him up. Then
he can plun­der the ­strong ­man’s ­house. 28  Tru­ly
I tell you, peo­ple can be for­g iv­en all ­t heir sins
and ­e very slan­der they ut­ter, 29  but who­e v­er
blas­phemes ­against the Holy Spir­it will nev­er
be for­g iv­en; they are ­g uilty of an eter­nal sin.”
30  He said this be­c ause they were say­i ng,
“He has an im­pure spir­it.”
31  Then ­Jesus’ moth­er and broth­ers ar­r ived.
Stand­i ng out­side, they sent some­one in to call
him. 32  A ­c rowd was sit­t ing ­a round him, and
they told him, “Your moth­er and broth­ers are
out­side look­i ng for you.”
33  “Who are my moth­er and my broth­ers?”
he asked.
34  Then he ­looked at ­t hose seat­ed in a cir­cle
a round him and said, “Here are my moth­er
and my broth­ers! 35  Who­ev­er does ­God’s will is
my broth­er and sis­ter and moth­er.”
The Parable of the Sower
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Again ­Jesus be­gan to ­teach by the lake.
The ­crowd that gath­ered ­a round him was
so ­large that he got into a boat and sat in it out
on the lake, ­w hile all the peo­ple were ­a long
the ­shore at the wa­ter’s edge. 2  He ­taught them
many ­t hings by par­a­bles, and in his teach­i ng
said: 3  “Lis­ten! A farm­er went out to sow his
seed. 4  As he was scat­ter­i ng the seed, some fell
a long the path, and the ­birds came and ate it
up. 5  Some fell on ­rocky plac­es, ­where it did not
have much soil. It ­sprang up quick­ly, be­cause
the soil was shal­low. 6  But when the sun came
up, the ­plants were ­scorched, and they with­
ered be­cause they had no root. 7  Oth­er seed fell
a mong ­t horns, ­which grew up and ­choked the
plants, so that they did not bear ­g rain. 8  Still
oth­er seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew
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