"What man of you, who shall have a sheep, if this falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not lay hold of it and lift it out?

How much, then, is a man of more value than a sheep? So it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

Then he said to the man :

"Stretch out your hand."

He stretched it out and it was restored as the other.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him to destroy him.

Jesus saw it and withdrew from there. And many followed him and he cured them all, and charged them not to make him known; so that what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled:

Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen,

My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased,

I will put my spirit upon him.

And he shall declare judgment to the heathen.
He shall not strive nor cry,

No one shall hear his voice in the streets,
A bruised reed shall he not break,

Smoking flax shall he not quench,
Till he send forth judgment unto victory.
In his name shall the heathen trust."

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One possessed with a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him.

He cured him so the blind and mute both spoke and saw. And all the crowds wondered, and said: "Can this be the Son of David?"

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said: "This man does not drive out demons but by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

He noticed their thoughts, and said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself

Is brought to desolation.

Every city or house divided against itself
Will not stand.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself.

How then shall his kingdom stand?

If Beelzebub drives out demons,

By whom do your sons drive them out?
So they will be your judges.

But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God,
Then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
How can any one enter a strong man's house
And spoil his goods,

Except he first bind the strong man?

And then he will spoil his house. He who is not with me is against me,

He who gathers not with me scatters abroad.

So I tell you

All kinds of sin and blasphemy,

Will be put away from men.

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But the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
Will not be put away from them.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of man,
It will be put away from him.

But whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit,
It will not be put away from him,
Neither in this world,

Nor in the world to come.

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, Or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt.

For the tree is known by its fruit.

O you brood of vipers!

How can you, being evil,

Speak good things?

For out of the abundance of the heart,

The mouth speaks.

A good man out of the good treasure of his

heart,

Brings out good things.

A bad man out of his bad treasure,

Brings out bad things.

But I tell you :

Every idle word which men will speak,

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They will give account of in the day of judgment.

For by your words you will be justified,

By your words you will be condemned.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him:

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Master, we want to see a sign from you."

But he answered them:

"A wicked and faithless generation is seeking after a sign,

And no sign will be given it but the sign of
Jonah the prophet.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights
in the belly of the sea monster,

So will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation,

And will condemn it.

For they changed their mind and the purpose of their heart at the preaching of Jonah, And a greater than Jonah is here.

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation,

And will condemn it.

For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

And a greater than Solomon is here.

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But the unclean spirit,

When he has gone out of the man,

Passes through waterless places,

Seeking rest and finds none.

Then he says: I will return to my house

From which I came out,

And when he has come he finds it

Empty, swept, and adorned.

Then he goes and takes with himself,

Seven other spirits more evil than himself.
And they enter in

And dwell there.

And the last state of that man

Becomes worse than the first.

It will be the same also

With this wicked generation."

He was still speaking to the crowds when his mother and his brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to him.

Some one said to him:

'Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside desiring to speak with you." He answered him who told him:

"Who is my mother? And who are my brothers?" And he stretched out his hand towards his disciples: "Look, my mother, and my brothers. For whoever shall do the will of my