Mark 3 · Notes

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there having the withered hand.

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he will heal him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

And he says to the man having the withered hand, "Rise into the middle."

And he says to them, "Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?" But they were silent.

And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, "Stretch out the hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

And the Perushim (Pharisees), going out, immediately were giving counsel with the Herodians against him, as to how they might destroy him.

And Yeshua (Jesus) withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from the Galil (Galilee) followed; and from Yehudah (Judea)

and from Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) and from Idumea and beyond the Yarden (Jordan) and around Tsor (Tyre) and Tsidon (Sidon), a great multitude, hearing what he was doing, came to him.

And he told his disciples that a little boat should stay ready for him because of the crowd, so that they might not press upon him;

for he healed many, so that they fell upon him in order to touch him — as many as had afflictions.

And the unclean spirits, whenever they beheld him, were falling before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God."

And he was sternly warning them many times that they should not make him known.

And he goes up into the mountain and calls to him those whom he himself wanted, and they went off to him.

And he made twelve, [whom he also named emissaries,] that they might be with him and that he might send them to proclaim

and to have authority to cast out the demons.

[And he made the twelve,] and he put the name Kefa (Peter) on Shimon (Simon),

and Ya'aqov (James) the son of Zavdai (Zebedee) and Yochanan (John) the brother of James — and he put on them the name Boanerges, which is "sons of thunder" —

and Andreas (Andrew) and Philippos (Philip) and Bar-Talmai (Bartholomew) and Mattai (Matthew) and Toma (Thomas) and Ya'aqov the son of Chalfai (Alphaeus) and Taddai (Thaddaeus) and Shimon the Kena'ani (Cananaean)

and Yehudah Ish-Keriot (Judas Iscariot), who also handed him over.

And he comes into a house; and the crowd comes together again, so that they were not even able to eat bread.

And hearing it, those who were his own went out to seize him, for they were saying that he is beside himself.

And the scribes who had come down from Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) were saying that he has Beelzevul (Beelzebul), and that by the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.

And calling them to him, he was speaking to them in parables: "How can the Satan cast out the Satan?

And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

and if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

And if the Satan rose up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but has an end.

But no one is able, entering into the house of the strong one, to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong one, and then he will plunder his house.

Truly I say to you that all things will be forgiven the sons of men — the sins and the blasphemies, whatever they may blaspheme;

but whoever blasphemes against the holy wind/spirit has no forgiveness for the age, but is guilty of an eternal sin" —

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

And his mother and his brothers come, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

And a crowd was sitting around him, and they say to him, "See, your mother and your brothers and your sisters outside are seeking you."

And answering them he says, "Who is my mother and my brothers?"

And looking around at those sitting around him in a circle, he says, "See, my mother and my brothers.

For whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother."