Mark 3:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ Jesus said all this because these experts in the Law of Moses had been saying; “He has an evil spirit in him.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ For they persisted in saying, He has an unclean spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

Common English Bible

³⁰ He said this because the legal experts were saying, “He’s possessed by an evil spirit.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ For they said: "He has an unclean spirit."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit.

Mark 3:30 Cross References

Mark 3:22

And the experts in the Law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], “He has Beelzebub [in him],” and “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”

Mark 3:29

But the person who speaks against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, for he is guilty of a never ending sin.”

Mark 3:31

Then Jesus’ mother and [half-] brothers came and stood outside [i.e., of a large house. See Matt. 12:46-13:1]. They sent a message to Him, asking Him to come out to them.

John 10:20

Many of them said, “This man is dominated by an evil spirit; he is crazy, why listen to him?”