Mark 3
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Doing Good on the Sabbath
1-3Then he went back in the meeting place where he found a man with a crippled hand. The Pharisees had their eyes on Jesus to see if he would heal him, hoping to catch him in a Sabbath violation. He said to the man with the crippled hand, “Stand here where we can see you.”
4Then he spoke to the people: “What kind of action suits the Sabbath best? Doing good or doing evil? Helping people or leaving them helpless?” No one said a word.
5-6He looked them in the eye, one after another, angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion. He said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” He held it out—it was as good as new! The Pharisees got out as fast as they could, sputtering about how they would join forces with Herod’s followers and ruin him.
The Twelve Apostles
7-10Jesus went off with his disciples to the sea to get away. But a huge crowd from Galilee trailed after them—also from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, across the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon—swarms of people who had heard the reports and had come to see for themselves. He told his disciples to get a boat ready so he wouldn’t be trampled by the crowd. He had healed many people, and now everyone who had something wrong was pushing and shoving to get near and touch him.
11-12Evil spirits, when they recognized him, fell down and cried out, “You are the Son of God!” But Jesus would have none of it. He shut them up, forbidding them to identify him in public.
13-19He climbed a mountain and invited those he wanted with him. They climbed together. He settled on twelve, and designated them apostles. The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word and give them authority to banish demons. These are the Twelve:
Simon (Jesus later named him Peter, meaning “Rock”),
James, son of Zebedee,
John, brother of James (Jesus nicknamed the Zebedee brothers Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),
Andrew,
Philip,
Bartholomew,
Matthew,
Thomas,
James, son of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus,
Simon the Canaanite,
Judas Iscariot (who betrayed him).
Satan Fighting Satan?
20-21Jesus came home and, as usual, a crowd gathered—so many making demands on him that there wasn’t even time to eat. His friends heard what was going on and went to rescue him, by force if necessary. They suspected he was believing his own press.
22-27The religion scholars from Jerusalem came down spreading rumors that he was working black magic, using devil tricks to impress them with spiritual power. Jesus confronted their slander with a story: “Does it make sense to send a devil to catch a devil, to use Satan to get rid of Satan? A constantly squabbling family disintegrates. If Satan were fighting Satan, there soon wouldn’t be any Satan left. Do you think it’s possible in broad daylight to enter the house of an awake, able-bodied man, and walk off with his possessions unless you tie him up first? Tie him up, though, and you can clean him out.
28-30“Listen to this carefully. I’m warning you. There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven. But if you persist in your slanders against God’s Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.” He gave this warning because they were accusing him of being in league with Evil.
Jesus’ Mother and Brothers
31-32Just then his mother and brothers showed up. Standing outside, they relayed a message that they wanted a word with him. He was surrounded by the crowd when he was given the message, “Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside looking for you.”
33-35Jesus responded, “Who do you think are my mother and brothers?” Looking around, taking in everyone seated around him, he said, “Right here, right in front of you—my mother and my brothers. Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
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Mark 3
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Mark 3
1¶ And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.
2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
3So he said unto the man who had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4And he said unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days or to do evil? to save the person or to kill them? But they were silent.
5And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other.
6And as the Pharisees went forth, they took counsel with the Herodians against him, to kill him.
7But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea
8and from Jerusalem and from Idumaea and from beyond Jordan. And those who dwell around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him.
9And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10For he had healed many, insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him to touch him.
11And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and cried out, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
13¶ And he went up to the mountain and called unto himself whom he would, and they came unto him.
14And he established twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach
15and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils:
16Simon, whom he gave the name Peter;
17and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed them Boanerges, which is The sons of thunder;
18and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus and Simon the Canaanite
19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him; and they came home.
20And the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
21And when his friends and family heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him; for they said, He is beside himself.
22¶ But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he had Beelzebub and that by the prince of the devils he cast out devils.
23And he called them unto him and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot remain.
25And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot remain.
26And if Satan rises up against himself and is divided, he cannot remain, but has an end.
27No man can enter into a strong man’s house and spoil his goods except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house.
28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and whatever blasphemies with which they shall blaspheme,
29but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness but is obligated to eternal judgment,
30because they said, He has an unclean spirit.
31¶ There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
32The multitude was sitting all around him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brothers and sisters seek thee without.
33And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother or my brethren?
34And looking round about on those who sat about him, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
35For whosoever doeth the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister and my mother.
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