3 2:13And he went out again by the lake, and all the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 2:14And passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me; and he arose and followed him. 2:15And he was reclining in his house, and many publicans and sinners also reclined with Jesus and his disciples, for many also followed him. 2:16And the scribes and Pharisees seeing him eating with sinners and publicans, said to his disciples, Why does he eat and drink with sinners and publicans? 2:17And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
4 2:18And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fasted. And they came and said to him, Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples fast not? 2:19And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast, 2:20but days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast at that time. 2:21No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment; if he does the new piece takes away its fullness from the old, and the rent is made worse. 2:22And no one puts new wine into old bottles; if he does the wine breaks the bottles, and the wine and the bottles are destroyed.
5 2:23And he was passing on the sabbath through the grain fields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking heads of grain. 2:24And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath, which it is not lawful to do. 2:25And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry? both he and those with him? 2:26How he entered into the house of God under Abiathar the chief priest, and eat the show bread, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him? 2:27And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath; 2:28so that the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.
6 3:1And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there having a withered hand. 3:2And they watched him [to see] if he would cure him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. 3:3And he said to the man having the withered hand, Arise in the midst. 3:4And he said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? And they were silent. 3:5And looking around on them in anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 3:6And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians, and took counsel against him to kill him.
7 3:7And Jesus went away with his disciples to the lake; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, 3:8and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan. And those about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what he did, came to him. 3:9And he told his disciples to have a boat constantly attend him on account of the multitude, that they might not throng him. 3:10For he cured many, so that all who had diseases fell down before him, that they might touch him; 3:11and the impure spirits when they saw him fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God. 3:12And he strictly charged them not to make him known.
CHAPTER III.
CHRIST CALLING THE TWELVE APOSTLES, THE CHARACTER OF HIS MIRACLES, ETC., AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS DISCIPLES.
1 3:13AND he went up on the mountain, and called whom he would; and they went to him. 3:14And he appointed twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 3:15and have power to cast out demons. 3:16And he gave to Simon the name of Peter. [He appointed him], 3:17and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James—and he gave them the names of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder—3:18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot, 3:19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And they came into a house, 3:20and again a multitude came together, so that they could not eat bread. 3:21And those with him hearing of it, went out to take him; for they said, He is beside himself.
2 3:22And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebul, and casts out demons by the ruler of demons. 3:23And calling them, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 3:24And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; 3:25and if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand; 3:26and if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 3:27But no one can enter into the house of a strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. 3:28I tell you truly, That all sins and blasphemies with which they blaspheme shall be forgiven the children of men; 3:29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness, but is the subject of an eternal mistake; 3:30because they said, He has an impure spirit.
3 3:31Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing without, sent to him to call him. 3:32And a multitude sat around him. And they said to him, Behold your mother, and your brothers, and your sisters seek you without. 3:33And he answered them and said, Who is my mother, or my brothers? 3:34And looking round on those sitting about him, he said, Behold my mother, and my brothers! 3:35Whoever shall do the will of God, this is my brother, and sister, and mother.
CHAPTER IV.
CHRIST'S PARABLES BY THE LAKE, AND HIS STILLING A TEMPEST.
1 4:1AND again he taught by the lake; and a very great multitude came together to him, so that entering into a ship he sat on the lake, and all the multitude were by the lake on the land. 4:2And he taught them many things in parables, and said to them, in his teaching, 4:3Hear! behold a sower went out to sow; 4:4and in sowing, some fell on the way, and the birds came and devoured it. 4:5And some fell on a rocky place, where it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because it had no depth of earth; 4:6and when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it had no root it was dried up. 4:7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 4:8And some fell on good ground, and produced fruit, growing up and increasing, and bore one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundred. 4:9And he said, He that has ears, let him hear.
2 4:10And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, asked him the parable. 4:11And he said to them, To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but