Chapter III
Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose) Sawyer translation
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.