003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son
of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.
003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not
so much as eat bread.
003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him:
for they said, "He is insane."
003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul,"
and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."
003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan
cast out Satan?
003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided,
he can't stand, but has an end.
003:027 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder,
unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will
plunder his house.
003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man
will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which
they may blaspheme;
003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never
has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
003:030 --because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside,
they sent to him, calling him.
003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold,
your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your
sisters"} are outside looking for you."
003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold,
my mother and my brothers!
003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother,
and my sister, and mother."
004:001 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was
gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea,
and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
004:002 He taught them many things in parables, and told them
in his teaching,
004:003 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
004:004 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road,
and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.
004:005 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil,
and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
004:006 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had
no root, it withered away.
004:007 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up,
and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
004:008 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit,
growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times,
some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
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