Mark 3

The Man with a Withered Hand

1 # Mk 1.21, 39 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2#Mt 12.10; Lk 14.1; 20.20They were watching him to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” 4Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6#Mt 12.14; 22.16; Mk 12.13The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A Multitude at the Seaside

7 # Mt 4.25 Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him; 8#Mt 11.21hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon. 9He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him, 10#Mt 4.23; Mk 5.29, 34; 6.56; 8.22for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. 11#Mt 14.33; Mk 1.23, 24; Lk 4.41Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” 12#Mk 1.25, 34But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

Jesus Appoints the Twelve

13 # Mt 5.1; Lk 9.1 He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. 14And he appointed twelve#3.14 Other ancient authorities add whom he also named apostles to be with him and to be sent out to preach 15and to have authority to cast out demons. 16#Jn 1.42So he appointed the twelve:#3.16 Other ancient authorities lack So he appointed the twelve Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), 17James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder), 18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, 19and Judas Iscariot, who handed him over.

Jesus and Beelzebul

20 # Mk 6.31 Then he went home, and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21#Jn 10.20; Acts 26.24When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” 22#Mt 9.34; 10.25; Jn 7.20; 8.48, 52And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” 23#Mk 4.2ffAnd he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. 27#Isa 49.24, 25But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

28 # Lk 12.10 “Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

The True Kindred of Jesus

31 # Mt 12.46; Lk 8.19 Then his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 32A crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers#3.32 Other ancient authorities add and sisters are outside asking for you.” 33And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

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