Thematic Bible




Mark 3:1 (show verse)

On another occasion Jesus went in to a Synagogue, where they was a man whose hand was withered.

Mark 3:2 (show verse)

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

Mark 3:3 (show verse)

"Stand out in the middle," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand;

Mark 3:4 (show verse)

And to the people he said: "Is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath--or harm? to save a life, or destroy it?"

Mark 3:5 (show verse)

As they remained silent, Jesus looked round at them in anger, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out; and his hand had become sound.

Mark 3:6 (show verse)

Immediately on leaving the Synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.

Mark 3:7 (show verse)

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the Sea, followed by a great number of people from Galilee.

Mark 3:8 (show verse)

And a great number, hearing of all that he was doing, came to him from Judea, from Jerusalem, from Edom, from beyond the Jordan, and from the country round Tyre and Sidon.

Mark 3:9 (show verse)

So Jesus told his disciples to keep a small boat close by, for fear the crowd should crush him.

Mark 3:10 (show verse)

For he had cured many of them, and so people kept crowding upon him, that all who were afflicted might touch him.

Mark 3:11 (show verse)

The foul spirits, too, whenever they caught sight of him, flung themselves down before him, and screamed out: "You are the Son of God"!

Mark 3:12 (show verse)

But he repeatedly warned them not to make him known.

Mark 3:13 (show verse)

And Jesus made his way up the hill, and called those whom he wished; and they went to him.

Mark 3:14 (show verse)

And he appointed twelve--whom he also named 'Apostles'--that they might be with him, and that he might send them out as his Messengers, to preach,

Mark 3:15 (show verse)

And with power to drive out demons.

Mark 3:16 (show verse)

So he appointed the Twelve--Peter (which was the name that Jesus gave to Simon),

Mark 3:17 (show verse)

James, the son of Zebediah, and his brother John (to whom he gave the name of Boanerges, which means the Thunderers),

Mark 3:18 (show verse)

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

Mark 3:19 (show verse)

And Judas Iscariot, the man that betrayed him.

Mark 3:20 (show verse)

Jesus went into a house; and again a crowd collected, so that they were not able even to eat their food.

Mark 3:21 (show verse)

When his relations heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

Mark 3:22 (show verse)

And the Teachers of the Law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: "He has Baal-zebub in him, and he drives the demons out by the help of Baal-zebub, their chief."

Mark 3:23 (show verse)

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Mark 3:24 (show verse)

When a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot last;

Mark 3:25 (show verse)

And when a household is divided against itself, it will not be able to last.

Mark 3:26 (show verse)

So, if Satan is in revolt against himself and is divided, he cannot last--his end has come!

Mark 3:27 (show verse)

No man who has got into a strong man's house can carry off his goods, without first securing him; and not till then will he plunder his house.

Mark 3:28 (show verse)

I tell you that men will be forgiven everything--their sins, and all the slanders that they utter;

Mark 3:29 (show verse)

but whoever slanders the Holy Spirit remains unforgiven to the end; he has to answer for an enduring sin."

Mark 3:30 (show verse)

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.

Mark 3:31 (show verse)

And his mother and his brothers came, and stood outside, and sent to ask him to come to them.

Mark 3:32 (show verse)

There was a crowd sitting round Jesus, and some of them said to him: "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

Mark 3:33 (show verse)

"Who is my mother? and my brothers?" was his reply.

Mark 3:34 (show verse)

Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle round him, and said: "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Mark 3:35 (show verse)

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