16. And he put on Simon the name Peter;
17. and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names-- Boanerges, that is, `Sons of thunder;'
18. and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,
19. and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.
20. And come together again doth a multitude, so that they are not able even to eat bread;
21. and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,
22. and the scribes who [are] from Jerusalem having come down, said--`He hath Beelzeboul,' and--`By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'
23. And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?
24. and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;
25. and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;
26. and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.
27. `No one is able the vessels of the strong man--having entered into his house--to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.
28. `Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil,