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 to those without all things are in parables; 4:12that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest at any time they should turn, and be forgiven. 4:13And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?
3 4:14The sower sows the word. 4:15And these are those where the word is sown by the way; and when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word which was sown upon them. 4:16And these in like manner are those sown on the rocky places; when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy, 4:17and have no root in themselves, but are temporary [disciples]. Then, when affliction or persecution occurs on account of the word, they are immediately offended. 4:18And those sown among thorns are different. They are those who hear the word, 4:19and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 4:20And these are those sown in good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.
4 4:21And he said to them, Does a light come to be put under a modius [1.916 gallon measure], or under a bed? and not to be put in a candlestick? 4:22For there is nothing hid that shall not be made manifest, nor any thing concealed that shall not come to light. 4:23If any one has ears to hear, let him hear. 4:24And he said to them, Consider what you hear. With what measure you measure it shall be measured to you, and more shall be given you. 4:25For whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him even what he has shall be taken away.