15. And to have authority and power to heal the sick and to drive out demons:
16. [They were] Simon, and He surnamed [him] Peter;
17. James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, and He surnamed them Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder;
18. And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew (Nathaniel), and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas, not Iscariot), and Simon the Cananaean [also called Zelotes],
19. And Judas Iscariot, he who betrayed Him.
20. Then He went to a house [probably Peter's], but a throng came together again, so that Jesus and His disciples could not even take food.
21. And when those who belonged to Him (His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of His mind (beside Himself, deranged)!
22. And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and, By [the help of] the prince of demons He is casting out demons.
23. And He summoned them to Him and said to them in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), How can Satan drive out Satan?
24. And if a kingdom is divided and rebelling against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25. And if a house is divided (split into factions and rebelling) against itself, that house will not be able to last.
26. And if Satan has raised an insurrection against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is [surely] coming to an end.
27. But no one can go into a strong man's house and ransack his household goods right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house. [Isa. 49:24, 25.]
28. Truly and solemnly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever abusive and blasphemous things they utter;