g of it,
went out to take him; for they said, He is beside himself.

2 [3:22]And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem said, He has
Beelzebul, and casts out demons by the ruler of demons. [3:23]And
calling them, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out
Satan? [3:24]And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand; [3:25]and if a house is divided against itself, that
house cannot stand; [3:26]and if Satan has risen up against himself,
and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. [3:27]But 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. [3:28]I
tell you truly, That all sins and blasphemies with which they blaspheme
shall be forgiven the children of men; [3:29]but whoever blasphemes
against the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness, but is the
subject of an eternal mistake; [3:30]because they said, He has an
impure spirit.

3 [3:31]Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing without,
sent to him to call him. [3:32]And a multitude sat around him. And they
said to him, Behold your mother, and your brothers, and your sisters
seek you without. [3:33] And he answered them and said, Who is my
mother, or my brothers? [3:34]And looking round on those sitting about
him, he said, Behold my mother, and my brothers! [3:35]Whoever 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 [4:1]AND
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. [4:2]And he taught them many
things in parables, and said to them, in his teaching, [4:3]Hear!
behold a sower went out to sow; [4:4]and in sowing, some fell on the
way, and the birds came and devoured it. [4:5]And some fell on a rocky
place, where it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because
it had no depth of earth; [4:6]and when the sun rose, it was scorched,
and because it had no root it was dried up. [4:7]And some fell among
thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
[4:8]And some fell on good ground, and produced fruit, growing up and
increasing, and bore one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundred. [4:9]And
he said, He that has ears, let him hear.

2 [4:10]And when he was alone, th