Mark 3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ Jesus  entered the synagogue  again, and a man was there who had a shrivelled  hand.

² In order to accuse  him, they were watching him closely  to see whether he would heal  him on the Sabbath.

³ He told the man with the shrivelled hand, ‘Stand before us.’

⁴ Then 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 were silent.

⁵ After looking round at them with anger,  he was grieved at the hardness  of their hearts and told the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

⁶ Immediately the Pharisees  went out and started plotting  with the Herodians  against him, how they might kill  him.

Ministering to the Multitude

⁷ Jesus  departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee,  and a large crowd followed from Judea,

⁸ Jerusalem,  Idumea, beyond the Jordan,  and around Tyre  and Sidon.  The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing.

⁹ Then he told his disciples to have a small boat  ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him.

¹⁰ Since he had healed  many, all who had diseases were pressing towards him to touch  him.

¹¹ Whenever the unclean  spirits  saw him, they fell down  before him and cried out, ‘You are the Son of God! ’

¹² And he would strongly warn  them not to make him known.

The Twelve Apostles

¹³ Jesus  went up the mountain  and summoned those he wanted, and they came to him.

¹⁴ He appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles,  , to be with him, to send them out to preach,

¹⁵ and to have authority to  drive out demons.

¹⁶ He appointed the Twelve:  , To Simon,  he gave the name Peter;

¹⁷ and to James  the son of Zebedee,  and to his brother John,  he gave the name ‘Boanerges’ (that is, ‘Sons of Thunder’  );

¹⁸ Andrew;  Philip  and Bartholomew; Matthew  and Thomas;  James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot,

¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot,  who also betrayed him.

A House Divided

²⁰ Jesus entered a house, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.

²¹ When his family  heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, ‘He’s out of his mind.’

²² The scribes  who had come down from Jerusalem said, ‘He is possessed by Beelzebul,’  and, ‘He drives out  demons  by the ruler  of the demons.’

²³ So he summoned  them and spoke to them in parables:  ‘How can Satan   drive out Satan?

²⁴ If a kingdom   is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

²⁵ If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

²⁶ And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished.

²⁷ But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his possessions unless he first ties up   the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.

²⁸ ‘Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies   they utter.

²⁹ But whoever blasphemes   against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness,   but is guilty   of an eternal sin’   ,  #– #

³⁰ because they were saying, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’

True Relationships

³¹ His  mother  and his brothers  came, and standing outside, they sent word to him and called him.

³² A crowd was sitting around him and told him, ‘Look, your mother, your brothers,  and your sisters  are outside asking for you.’

³³ He replied to them, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers? ’

³⁴ Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers!

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God   is my brother and sister and mother.’