Mark - Chapter 3 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
  • 2. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
  • 3. And he said to the man with the withered hand, {cf6 "Come here."}
  • 4. And he said to them, {cf6 "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?"} But they were silent.
  • 5. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, {cf6 "Stretch out your hand."} He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
  • 6. The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
  • 7. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea
  • 8. and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.
  • 9. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
  • 10. for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.
  • 11. And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."
  • 12. And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
  • 13. And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
  • 14. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
  • 15. and have authority to cast out demons.
  • 16. He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
  • 17. James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
  • 18. Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
  • 19. and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
  • 20. Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.
  • 21. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."
  • 22. And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."
  • 23. And he called them to him and said to them in parables, {cf6 "How can Satan cast out Satan?}
  • 24. {cf6 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.}
  • 25. {cf6 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.}
  • 26. {cf6 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.}
  • 27. {cf6 But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.}
  • 28. {cf6 "Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,}
  • 29. {cf6 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"}--
  • 30. for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
  • 31. And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.
  • 32. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you."
  • 33. And he answered them, {cf6 "Who are my mother and my brothers?"}
  • 34. And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, {cf6 "Here are my mother and my brothers!}
  • 35. {cf6 Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother."}
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