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Mark 3

Jesus Heals on the Sabbath

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 aHe  bentered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

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 aThey were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath,  bso that they might accuse Him.

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He *said to the man with the withered hand, 1Get up and come forward!"

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

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After  alooking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

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The Pharisees went out and immediately began  1conspiring with the  aHerodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

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 aJesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and  ba great multitude from Galilee followed; and also from Judea,

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and from Jerusalem, and from  aIdumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of  bTyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

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 aAnd He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

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for He had  ahealed many, with the result that all those who had  bafflictions pressed around Him in order to  ctouch Him.

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Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, "You are  athe Son of God!"

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And He  aearnestly warned them not to  1tell who He was.

The Twelve Are Chosen

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And He *went up on  athe mountain and * bsummoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.

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And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

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and to have authority to cast out the demons.

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And He appointed the twelve:  aSimon (to whom He gave the name Peter),

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and  1James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of  1James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, "Sons of Thunder");

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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and  1James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the  2Zealot;

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and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

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And He *came  1 ahome, and the  bcrowd *gathered again,  cto such an extent that they could not even eat  2a meal.

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When  aHis own  1people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, " bHe has lost His senses."

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The scribes who came down  afrom Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by  1 bBeelzebul," and " cHe casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons."

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 aAnd He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in  bparables, "How can  cSatan cast out Satan?

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

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"If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

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"If  aSatan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but  1he is finished!

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aBut no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

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aTruly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

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but  awhoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--

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because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

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 aThen His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

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A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You."

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Answering them, He *said, "Who are My mother and My brothers?"

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Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, aBehold My mother and My brothers!

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"For whoever  adoes the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother."



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