Mark 3

Crowds and Demons Mark 3:7–12

⁷Verse 7. Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, ⁸Verse 8. 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. ⁹Verse 9. 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. ¹⁰Verse 10. For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. ¹¹Verse 11. The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

¹²Verse 12. He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

Appointment of the Twelve Mark 3:13–19

¹³Verse 13. He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴Verse 14. He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, ¹⁵Verse 15. and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: ¹⁶Verse 16. Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); ¹⁷Verse 17. James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸Verse 18. Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

¹⁹Verse 19. and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.

Family Misunderstanding Mark 3:20–21

²⁰Verse 20. The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. ²¹Verse 21. When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”

Accusations from Scribes Mark 3:22–30

²²Verse 22. The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.” ²³Verse 23. He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴Verse 24. If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵Verse 25. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ²⁶Verse 26. If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end. ²⁷Verse 27. 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.

²⁸Verse 28. Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; ²⁹Verse 29. but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.” ³⁰Verse 30. —because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

True Kinship Revealed Mark 3:31–35

³¹Verse 31. His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. ³²Verse 32. A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.” ³³Verse 33. He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴Verse 34. Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! ³⁵Verse 35. For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”