Mark 3

Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

1He entered the synagogue again, and there was a man there whose hand was withered. 2They watched him to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3He said to the man with the withered hand, “Stand up.” 4Then he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5When he had looked around at them in anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6The Pharisees left immediately and conspired with the Herodians against him, as to how they might destroy him.

Crowds Follow Jesus

7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a large crowd followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 8from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A large crowd, hearing what great things he did, came to him. 9He told his disciples that a little boat should be ready for him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press toward him. 10For he had healed so many that those with diseases pressed toward him to touch him. 11Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried, “You are the Son of God!” 12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

Jesus Appoints the Twelve Apostles

13He went up into the mountain and called those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 14He appointed twelve that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach 15and to have authority to cast out demons. 16He appointed twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), 17James the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James (he called them Boanerges, which means, “sons of thunder”), 18Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus. Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, 19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Everyone Doubts Jesus

20Then he came into a house, and a crowd gathered again, so that they could not so much as eat. 21When his friends heard this, they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is insane.” 22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

23So he summoned them and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If an empire is divided against itself, that empire cannot stand. 25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but his end has come. 27But no one can enter into the house of the strong person to plunder unless he first binds the strong person. Then they can plunder the house.

28 “I tell y’all, all sins of the children of humanity will be forgiven, including their blasphemies they utter; 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin. 30(because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”)

31His mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent for him and calling him. 32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Look, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

33He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

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