3Mark 3

1He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.Select Mark 3:1

2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.Select Mark 3:2

3He said to the man who had his hand withered, “Stand up.”Select Mark 3:3

4He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.Select Mark 3:4

5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.Select Mark 3:5

6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.Select Mark 3:6

7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,Select Mark 3:7

8from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.Select Mark 3:8

9He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him.Select Mark 3:9

10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.Select Mark 3:10

11The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”Select Mark 3:11

12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.Select Mark 3:12

13He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.Select Mark 3:13

14He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,Select Mark 3:14

15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:Select Mark 3:15

16Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;Select Mark 3:16

17James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he called them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;Select Mark 3:17

18Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;Select Mark 3:18

19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.Select Mark 3:19

20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.Select Mark 3:20

21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”Select Mark 3:21

22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”Select Mark 3:22

23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?Select Mark 3:23

24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.Select Mark 3:24

25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.Select Mark 3:25

26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end.Select Mark 3:26

27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.Select Mark 3:27

28Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;Select Mark 3:28

29but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”Select Mark 3:29

30—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”Select Mark 3:30

31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.Select Mark 3:31

32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”Select Mark 3:32

33He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”Select Mark 3:33

34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!Select Mark 3:34

35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”Select Mark 3:35