Gospel of Mar Marqos: - Chapter 3

1 Again Yeshua entered into an assembly and there was a certain man there whose hand was withered. 2 And they were watching him in case he healed him on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him. 3 And he said to the man whose hand was withered: Rise up in the midst. 4 And he also said to them: Is it in accordance with law to do that which is good on Shabbat, or to do that which is evil? to give life to a soul, or to destroy it? But they were silent. 5 And he looked at them with irritation, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts. And he said to the man: Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 And the Pharisees left immediately with the Herodians, and took counsel against him, so that they could destroy him. 7 And Yeshua with his disciples went to the sea and many people from Galil joined him, and from Yehuda, 8 and from Yerushalayim, and from Edom, and from beyond the Yordan, and from Tyre, and from Tsidon: great multitudes came to him, who heard all the things he had done. 9 He asked his talmidim to bring him a boat because of the multitude, lest they should crowd upon him, 10 for he had healed many, so that they falling on him so they could touch him. 11 And those who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him, they were falling and crying out, saying: You are the Son of Alaha. 12 And he was rebuking them very much and told them that they were not to make him known.

13 And he went up to a mountain and called those whom he pleased; and they came to him. 14 And he chose twelve to be with him, to send them out to preach, 15 and to be authorities to heal the sick and to cast out demons. 16 And to Shimon he gave the name of Keipha. 17 And to Ya'aqub ben Zavddai and to Yokhanan the brother of Ya'aqub, he gave the name of B'nai Ragshi (that is, Sons of Thunder). 18 And Andreus, and Philipos, and Tulmai, and Mattai, and Thoma, and Ya'aqub ben Alpheus, and Taddai, and Shimon the Canaanite, 19 and Yehuda Skariota, the one who betrayed him.

20 And they came to the a house, and the multitude gathered again so many that they were not able to eat bread. 21 And his family heard, and they went out to rescue him; for they were saying that he was out of his mind. 22 And those scribes who had come down from Yerushalayim, said: Beelzebub is in him; and by the prince of demons he expels demons. 23 And Yeshua called them and spoke to them in parables: How can satan cast out satan? 24 For if a kingdom is against itself, it will be divided and that kingdom is not able to stand. 25 And if a house is against itself, it will be divided and that house is not able to stand. 26 And if satan rises up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but he is at his end. 27 No man is able to enter the house of a strong man, and steal his possessions, unless he first restrains the strong man; and then he may steal from his house.

28 Truly I say to all of you, That all sins and the blasphemies that men may speak, will be forgiven them; 29 but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, he never has any forgiveness; but he is guilty to eternal judgement 30 - because they had said that an unclean spirit is in him. 31 And his mother and his brothers came, standing outside, sent to call him to them. 32 And the crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him: Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you. 33 He replied, and said to them: Who is my mother? and who are my brothers? 34 And he looked at those who sat with him, and said: Look, my mother! and, look, my brothers! 35 For he who does the will of Alaha, is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.