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Mark 3

1 He healeth the man with the dryed hand. 14 He choseth his Apostles. 21 Christ is thought of the worldelings to be besides him self. 23 He casteth out the unclean spirit, which the Pharises ascribe unto the devil. 29 Blasphemie against the holie Ghost. 35 The brother, sister and mother of Christ.
1.And *he entered again into the Synagogue, and there was a man which had a withered hand.
2.And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
3.Then he said unto the man which had the withered hand, Arise: stand forth in the middes.
4.And he said to them, Is it lawful to do a good deed on the Sabbath day, or to do evil? to save the life, or to kill? But they aheld their peace.
5.Then he looked round about on them bangerly, mourning also for the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored, as whole as the other.
6.¶ And the Pharises departed, & straight way gathered a counsel with the cHerodians against him, that they might destroy him.
7.But Jesus avoided with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude followed him from Galile, and from Judea,
8.And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond Jordan: and they that dwelled about Tyrus and Sidon, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him in great number.
9.And he commanded his disciples, that a ship should wait for him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10.For he had healed many, insomuch that they preassed upon him, to touch him as many as had ^plagues.
11.And when the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him, and cryed, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12.And he sharply rebuked them, to the end they should not utter him.
13.*Then he went up into a mountain, and called unto him whom he would, and they came unto him.
14.And he appointed twelve that they should be with him, and that he might send them to preach,
15.And that they might have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils.
16.And the first was Simon, and he named Simon, Peter.
17.Then James the son of Zebedeus, and John, James’ brother (and named them Boanerges, which is the sons of thunder.)
18.And Andrew, and Philippe, and Bartlemew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alpheus, and ^Thaddeus and Simon the ^Cananite.
19.And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him, and they came dhome.
20.And the multitude assembled again, so that they could not somuch as eat bread.
21.And when ^his kinsfolks heard of it, they went out to lay ehold on him: for they thought he had been beside him self.
22.*And the Scribes which came from Jerusalem, said, He hath Beelzebub, & through the prince of devils he casteth out devils.
23.But he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan drive out Satan?
24.For if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom can not stand.
25.Or if a house be divided against it self, that house can not continue.
26.So if Satan make insurrection against him self, and be divided, he can not endure, but is at an end.
27.No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and take away his goods, except he first bind that strong man, and then spoil his house.
28.*Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the children of men, and blasphemies, wherewith they blaspheme:
29.But he that fblasphemeth against the holie Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but is culpable of eternal damnation,
30.Because they said, He had an unclean spirit.
31.*Then came his ^brethren and mother, and stood without, and sent unto him, and called him.
32.And the people sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren seek for thee without.
33.But he answered them, saying, Who is my mother and my brethren?
34.And he looked round about on them, which sat in compass about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren.
35.For whosoever doeth the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Notes

1-*.
Mt. 12.9, Lk. 6.6.
4-a.
They held their tongues of malice: for they would neither confess nor deny.
5-b.
Christ is in such sort angry with man that he pities him and seeks to win him.
6-c.
Although they hated one another deadly, yet this hindered them not to join their malice to resist Christ, read Mt. 22.16.
10-^.
Or, scourges, meaning diseases.
13-*.
Chap. 6.7, Mt. 10.1, Lk. 9.1.
18-^.
Or, Lebbeus, or Judas.
18-^-1.
Or, zealous.
19-d.
The disciples were now conversant with Christ both at home and abroad.
21-^.
Or, they that were about him.
21-e.
His kinsfolks would have shut him within doors, lest any harm should have come unto them, if any tumult had been made: for some would have made him a King, and the Pharises with others sought his life: so that hereby they might have procured the hatred of Herod, and of the Pharises and of the Romans.
22-*.
Mt. 9.34 and 12.24, Lk. 11.15.
28-*.
Mt. 12.31, Lk. 12.10, 1 John 5.16.
29-f.
Which is, when a man fights against his own conscience, and strives against the truth which is revealed unto him: for such one is in a repro- bate sense and can not come to repentance.
31-*.
Mt. 12.46, Lk. 8.19.
31-^.
Or, cousins.