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* Jesus went into the meeting house again . A man was there whose right hand was thin and weak . * The Pharisees watched Jesus to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath day . They wanted to find something wrong about Jesus . * He spoke to the man whose hand was thin and weak . He said , Stand here . * Then he spoke to the Pharisees . He said , Is it right to do good things on the Sabbath day or to do wrong things ? Is it right to heal people so they will live , or to let them die ? But the Pharisees said nothing . * Jesus was angry as he looked at them . And he was sad that their hearts were so hard . Then he said to the man , Hold out your hand . The man did so , and it was made well like the other hand . * The Pharisees went out . Right away they and the servants of King Herod planned together how to kill Jesus . bwe @Mark:3:7 @, fehlt /missing * Jesus and his disciples went away to the sea of Galilee . Many people went with Jesus . They came from Galilee , Judea , Jerusalem , Idumea , and from the other side of the Jordan River . And many more people came also , a great many from around the cities of Tyre and Sidon . They also had heard about the great works that Jesus had done . * Jesus saw that the crowd was very big . He told the disciples to have a small boat ready for him so that he would have more room . * He did this because he healed many people . All who were sick tried to touch him . * When the bad spirits saw Jesus , they bowed down before him . They shouted , You are Gods Son ! * He told them they must not tell anyone who he was . * Then Jesus went up on the hill . He wanted some of the people to come with him . So he called them and they came . * He chose twelve disciples to stay with him . He wanted to send them out to other places to tell people Gods word . * He gave them power to heal people and to drive bad spirits out of people . * One of the twelve was Simon , whom Jesus called Peter . * He also chose James and his brother John , the sons of Zebedee , whom he named Boanerges , which means "Men of Thunder ." bwe @Mark:3:18 @, fehlt /missing * He also chose Andrew , Philip , Bartholomew , Matthew , Thomas , James the son of Alphaeus , Thaddaeus , Simon of Canan , and Judas Iscariot , the one who gave Jesus over to people who hated him . Then Jesus and his disciples went home . * So many people came again that they could not even eat . * When Jesus family heard about this , they came to take him away . They said , He is crazy . * The scribes who came from Jerusalem also talked about Jesus . They said , Beelzebub , the chief of bad spirits , is in this man . He drives out bad spirits by the help of Beelzebub . * Jesus called the people and talked to them in stories . He asked , How can Satan drive out Satan ? * If one part of a country fights against another part of the country , that country cannot be strong . * If one part of a family fights against the other part of the family , it cannot stand . * If Satan fights against himself and the bad spirits fight against each other , he cannot stand . It will be the end of him . * If anyone wants to go into a strong mans house and steal his things , he must first tie the strong man . Then he can steal his things . * I tell you the truth . All wrong things that people do and say about anyone will be forgiven . * But people who say wrong things against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven . A person who does that will be punished for ever . * Jesus said all this because the scribes said , A bad spirit is in him . * Jesus mother and brothers came to him . They stood outside . They sent someone to him . * Many people were sitting around him . They said , See , your mother and your brothers are outside . They want you . * Jesus asked them , Who are my mother and my brothers ? * Then he looked at the people who sat around him . He said , These people are my mother and my brothers ! * Anyone who obeys God is my brother , my sister , and my mother .

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