Mark 3

CHAPTER 3

Jesus Heals a Man on the Sabbath

^1aAnd He ^bentered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand.

^2aAnd they were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, ^bso that they might accuse Him.

³And He ^*said to the man with the withered hand, “¹Get up and come forward!”

⁴And He ^*said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

⁵And after ^alooking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He ^*said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

⁶And the Pharisees went out and immediately began taking counsel together with the ^aHerodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

^7aAnd Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and ^ba great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea,

⁸and from Jerusalem, and from ^aIdumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of ^bTyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

^9aAnd He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

¹⁰for He had ^ahealed many, with the result that all those who had ^bafflictions pressed around Him in order to ^ctouch Him.

¹¹And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, “You are ^athe Son of God!”

¹²And He ^aearnestly warned them not to ¹tell who He was.

Jesus Appoints the Twelve

¹³And He ^*went up on ^athe mountain and ^*bsummoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.

¹⁴And He appointed twelve ¹(whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach,

¹⁵and to have authority to cast out the demons.

¹⁶And He appointed the twelve: ^aSimon (to whom He gave the name Peter),

¹⁷and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”);

¹⁸and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the ¹Zealot;

¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

²⁰And He ^*came ^1ahome, and the ^bcrowd ^*gathered again, ^cso that they could not even eat ²a meal.

²¹And when ^aHis own ¹people heard this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “^bHe has lost His senses.”

²²And the scribes who came down ^afrom Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by ^1bBeelzebul,” and “^cHe casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”

^23aAnd He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in ^bparables, “How can ^cSatan cast out Satan?

²⁴“And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

²⁵“And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

²⁶“And if ^aSatan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but ¹he is finished!

²⁷“^aBut no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

²⁸“^aTruly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

²⁹but ^awhoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

³⁰because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

^31aThen His mother and His brothers ^*arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him, calling Him.

³²And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they ^*said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”

³³And answering them, He ^*said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”

³⁴And looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He ^*said, “^aBehold My mother and My brothers!

³⁵“For whoever ^adoes the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”