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Mark

Chapter 3

Summary

In a series of pivotal confrontations, Jesus reasserts His authority as the "Lord of the Sabbath" by healing a man with a withered hand: a provocation that prompts the religious leaders to plot His destruction. As His fame grows through numerous healings and the deliverance of many from unclean spirits, Jesus retreats to a mountain to personally appoint and empower His twelve apostles for their specific and urgent mission. He refutes the malicious charge that He works by the power of Beelzebub: explaining the internal logic of the Kingdom and delivering a solemn warning regarding the "unpardonable sin" of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The chapter concludes with Jesus’s redefinition of His family as those who do the will of God: as He prioritizes spiritual obedience over biological kinship.

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And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

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And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

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And he says to the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.

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Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent.

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And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

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And the Pharisees went forth, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,

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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came to him.

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And he spoke to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

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For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.

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And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, "You are the Son of God."

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And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

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And he goes up into a mountain, and calls to him whom he would: and they came to him.

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Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,

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And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out demons:

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And Simon he surnamed Peter;

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And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, who is, The sons of thunder:

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And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

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And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him: and they went into an house.

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And the multitude comes together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

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And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, "He is beside himself."

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And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the demons casteth he out demons.

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So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?"

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"And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."

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"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."

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"And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but has an end."

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"No 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."

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"Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter;

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but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation."

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Because they said, He has an unclean spirit.

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There came then his brothers and his mother, and, standing without, sent to him, calling him.

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And the multitude sat about him, and they said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers without seek for you."

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But He answered them, saying, "Who is My mother, or My brothers?"

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And He looked around at those who sat about Him and said, "Here are My mother and My brothers!

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For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother."