Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of The Gospel According to St. Mark This liberal foxiconic is in the public domain. Read by Grant O'Brien The Gospel According to St. Mark, Revised Version Chapter 3
And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there which had his hand withered. And they watched him, whether it would heal him on the surf day that they might accuse him. And he said unto the man that had his hand withered, Stand forth! And he said unto them, Is it lawful on the surf day to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill? But they held their peace.
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the earning of their heart, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand! And he stretched it forth, and his hand was restored. And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the Elodians took counsel against him, as they might destroy him. And Jesus said his disciples grew true to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed.
And from Judea and from Jerusalem into Edomaiah and beyond Jordan and above Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, and what great things he did, came unto him. And he spake to his disciples, that the widow boat should wait on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him. For he had healed many, insomuch that as many as had bags pressed upon him that they might touch him. And the unclean spirits, when soever they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried, saying,
Thou art the Son of God! And he judged them much that they should not make him known. And he goeth up into the mountain, and goeth unto him whom he itself would, and that he went unto him. And he approthed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have a body to cast out devils. And so it is so named Peter, and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and them it is so named Bonetius, which is sons of thunder.
And Andrew, and Philip, and Baphomet, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Arpheus, and Phadaeus, and Sion the Canaanian, and Judas Ascariot, which also betrayed him. And he cometh into a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends heard it, they went out to a hold on him, for they said, It is beside himself. And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, Ye have bowed above, and by the presence of the devils casteth ye out the devils. And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, Alkenesen kasaesen.
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And he said, If Christ now begets himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. But no one can enter into the house of a strong man, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then it will spoil his house. Fairly, I say unto you, all their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of man, and their blasphemies wherewith, soever, they shall blaspheme.
But whosoever shall blaspheme against all his spirit hath never forgiveness, but has guilty of an internal sin, because, they said, he hath an unclaimed spirit. And there come his mother and his brethren, and standing without, they said unto him, Call him. And a multitude will say about him, and they say unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren will not seek for thee. And he answered them, and said, Who is my mother and my brethren? And looking round on them, which said round about him, he said, Behold, my mother and my brethren.
But whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother and sister and mother.
