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Mark Chapter 3 003:001 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 003:002 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 003:003 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 003:004 He 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.
003:005 When 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. 003:006 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
003:007 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 003:008 from 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. 003:009 He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. 003:010 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
003:011 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 003:012 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. 003:013 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.
003:014 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 003:015 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 003:016 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 003:017 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
He came into a house. 003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." 003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 003:027 But 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.
003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 003:030 --because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." 003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your sisters"} are outside looking for you." 003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."