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Mark 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel Of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible . HEALINGS Continuing the theme of the 6:6-11 . Jesus then goes down by a lake, presumably the Sea Of Galilee , and people follow him there. He has the disciples prepare a boat for him to avoid "crowding" and then heals many of the sick. The people with Devils brought before him fall down and call him the Son of God , but he tells them not to tell people who he was. CALLING OF APOSTLES Jesus calls twelve of his disciples to a mountain where he appoints them Apostles , with the power to Preach and "drive out Demons ." He appoints Peter , James , John , Andrew , Philip , Bartholomew , Matthew , Thomas , a second James , Thaddaeus , Simon whom Mark calls a Zealot , and lastly Judas . A HOUSE DIVIDED Jesus goes to someone's house and a large crowd follows him there. His family hears of this and comes to get him saying he is "...out of his mind." Teachers from Jerusalem come and accuse him of using Satan to drive out demons. He replies with the famous phrase "How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come." His Mother and brothers arrive and send someone in to get him. He replies, speaking to the crowd around him, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." These two incidents give a clear, almost unsettling picture of some people's view of Jesus, including his own family. The teachers think he is Evil and his family thinks he is Crazy . His answer to the first charge, that a "house divided" can not stand, has become a common piece of Wisdom , the most famous modern example is Lincoln's use of this phrase during the 1858 senatorial election campaign against Stephen Douglas . Lincoln used the metaphor of a "house divided" to describe the situation of the United States on the eve of the Civil War . Jesus's answer to his family, that those who follow him are his family is, according to Kilgallen, Jesus's way of underlying "...the fact that his life has been changed to such a degree that family ties no longer come before those whom he teaches about the Kingdom Of God ." (75) These incidents occur in all the with them and perform miracles, although he later goes there in secret. The story of Jesus and his family is also found in the Gospel Of Thomas as saying 99 . There is much disagreement over whether these "brothers" referred to here are Jesus's actual brothers or merely step-brothers or cousins. The official Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox doctrine is that Mary was a perpetual Virgin , and so could not have had any other children besides Jesus, thus making these Jesus's half brothers, sons of Joseph by another, unrecorded marriage, or cousins. Only Tertullian seems to have questioned this in the early Church. Islam also holds that Mary was a perpetual virgin as did many of the early Protestants , although many Protestants today do not hold to the doctrine of perpetual virginity, and would thus believe that these are Jesus's full brothers. REFERENCES
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