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She entered again into the synagogue, and there was a woman there who had her hand withered.
They watched her, whether she would heal her on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse her.
She said to the woman who had her hand withered, "Stand up."
She said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
When she had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, she said to the woman, "Stretch out your hand." She stretched it out, and her hand was restored as healthy as the other.
The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against her, how they might destroy her.
Jesus withdrew to the sea with her disciples, and a great multitude followed her from Galilee, from Judea,
from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things she did, came to her.
She spoke to her disciples that a little boat should stay near her because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on her.
For she had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on her that they might touch her.
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw her, fell down before her, and cried, "You are the Daughter of God!"
She sternly warned them that they should not make her known.
She went up into the mountain, and called to herself those whom she wanted, and they went to her.
She appointed twelve, that they might be with her, and that she might send them out to preach,
and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
Simona, to whom she gave the name Petra;
Jamie the daughter of Zebedee; Johanna, the sister of Jamie, and she surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Daughters of Thunder;
Anna; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthia; Thomas; Jamie, the daughter of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simona the Zealot;
and Judasie Iscariot, who also betrayed her. She came into a house.
The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
When her friends heard it, they went out to seize her: for they said, "She is insane."
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "She has Beelzebul," and, "By the princess of the demons she casts out the demons."
She summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If Satan has risen up against herself, and is divided, she can't stand, but has an end.
But no one can enter into the house of the strong woman to plunder, unless she first binds the strong woman; and then she will plunder her house.
Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of woman will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
--because they said, "She has an unclean spirit."
Her father and her sisters came, and standing outside, they sent to her, calling her.
A multitude was sitting around her, and they told her, "Behold, your father, your sisters, and your brothers are outside looking for you."
She answered them, "Who are my father and my sisters?"
Looking around at those who sat around her, she said, "Behold, my father and my sisters!
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my sister, and my brother, and father."