1Then he went back in the meeting place where he found a man with a crippled hand.
2The Pharisees had their eyes on Jesus to see if he would heal him, hoping to catch him in a Sabbath infraction.
3He said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand here where we can see you."
4Then he spoke to the people: "What kind of action suits the Sabbath best? Doing good or doing evil? Helping people or leaving them helpless?" No one said a word.
5He looked them in the eye, one after another, angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion. He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out--it was as good as new!
6The Pharisees got out as fast as they could, sputtering about how they would join forces with Herod's followers and ruin him.
7Jesus went off with his disciples to the sea to get away. But a huge crowd from Galilee trailed after them--
8also from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, across the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon--swarms of people who had heard the reports and had come to see for themselves.
9He told his disciples to get a boat ready so he wouldn't be trampled by the crowd.
10He had healed many people, and now everyone who had something wrong was pushing and shoving to get near and touch him.
11Evil spirits, when they recognized him, fell down and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"
12But Jesus would have none of it. He shut them up, forbidding them to identify him in public.
13He climbed a mountain and invited those he wanted with him. They climbed together.
14He settled on twelve, and designated them apostles. The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word
15and give them authority to banish demons.
16These are the Twelve: Simon (Jesus later named him Peter, meaning "Rock"),
17James, son of Zebedee, John, brother of James (Jesus nicknamed the Zebedee brothers Boanerges, meaning "Sons of Thunder"),
18Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Canaanite,
19Judas Iscariot (who betrayed him).
20Jesus came home and, as usual, a crowd gathered--so many making demands on him that there wasn't even time to eat.
21His friends heard what was going on and went to rescue him, by force if necessary. They suspected he was getting carried away with himself.
22The religion scholars from Jerusalem came down spreading rumors that he was working black magic, using devil tricks to impress them with spiritual power.
23Jesus confronted their slander with a story: "Does it make sense to send a devil to catch a devil, to use Satan to get rid of Satan?
24A constantly squabbling family disintegrates. If Satan were fighting Satan, there soon wouldn't be any Satan left.
27Do you think it's possible in broad daylight to enter the house of an awake, able-bodied man, and walk off with his possessions unless you tie him up first? Tie him up, though, and you can clean him out.
28"Listen to this carefully. I'm warning you. There's nothing done or said that can't be forgiven.
29But if you persist in your slanders against God's Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you're sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives."
30He gave this warning because they were accusing him of being in league with Evil.
31Just then his mother and brothers showed up. Standing outside, they relayed a message that they wanted a word with him.
32He was surrounded by the crowd when he was given the message, "Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside looking for you."
33Jesus responded, "Who do you think are my mother and brothers?"
34Looking around, taking in everyone seated around him, he said, "Right here, right in front of you--my mother and my brothers.
35Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys God's will is my brother and sister and mother."
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