Mark 3
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- 1Jesus went into the synagogue again, and there was a man with a withered hand.
- 2And they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so they could accuse him.
- 3And he said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand forth."
- 4And he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?" But they remained silent.
- 5Jesus looked around at them with anger, deeply grieved by the hardness of their hearts. Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out, and it was restored whole like the other.
- 6The Pharisees left immediately and began plotting with the Herodians about how to destroy Jesus.
- 7Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judaea,
- 8Jerusalem, Idumaea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the area around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude came to him because they had heard about the great things he was doing.
- 9He told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd wouldn't crush him.
- 10For he had healed many, so that they pressed upon him to touch him, as many as had diseases.
- 11Whenever unclean spirits saw him, they threw themselves down in front of him and screamed, "You are the Son of God!"
- 12But he sternly ordered them not to reveal who he was.
- 13Jesus went up on a mountainside and called the ones he wanted, and they came to him.
- 14He appointed twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them out to preach.
- 15And to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons.
- 16He gave Simon the name Peter;
- 17James son of Zebedee and his brother John — Jesus nicknamed them Boanerges, which means "Sons of Thunder";
- 18Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite;
- 19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then they went into a house.
- 20The crowd gathered again, making it impossible for them to even eat bread.
- 21When his friends heard about it, they went to seize him, saying, "He is out of his mind."
- 22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils he casts out devils."
- 23So Jesus called them over and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?"
- 24If a kingdom fights against itself, that kingdom can't survive.
- 25If a household is torn apart by conflict, that household won't last.
- 26So if Satan has turned against himself and is divided, he can't stand either — his end has come.
- 27No one can break into a strong man's house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Only then can he ransack the house.
- 28Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter:
- 29“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.”
- 30He said this because they were claiming he had an unclean spirit.
- 31Then his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside and sent someone in to call him.
- 32A crowd was sitting around Jesus, and they told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."
- 33He replied, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
- 34Then he looked at the people sitting in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
- 35Anyone who does the will of God — that person is my brother, my sister, and my mother."