Mark

¹Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man with a withered hand was there.

²Some were watching closely to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath, so they could accuse him.

³Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand up in front of everyone."

⁴Then he asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.

⁵He looked around at them in anger, deeply distressed by their stubborn hearts, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.

⁶The Pharisees went out and immediately began plotting with the Herodians against him, discussing how they might kill him.

⁷Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd from Galilee followed him.

⁸People also came from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and from the region beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, because they heard about everything he was doing.

⁹Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the people would not press in on him.

¹⁰He had healed many, so all who had diseases were pushing forward to touch him.

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

¹²But he gave them strict orders not to reveal who he was.

¹³Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.

¹⁴He appointed twelve, naming them apostles, that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach,

¹⁵and to have authority to drive out demons.

¹⁶These are the twelve he appointed: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

¹⁷James son of Zebedee and his brother John, to whom he gave the name Boanerges, which means "sons of thunder";

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

¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then Jesus went home.

²⁰Again a crowd gathered, so that Jesus and his disciples were not even able to eat.

²¹When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, saying, "He has lost his mind."

²²The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he drives out demons."

²³So Jesus called them over 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"And if a household is divided against itself, that household cannot stand."

²⁶"And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come."

²⁷"In fact, no one can enter a strong man's house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house."

²⁸"Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter,"

²⁹"but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin."

³⁰He said this because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

³¹Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.

³²A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you."

³³"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked.

³⁴Looking at those seated 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."