Mark 3

1He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there whose hand was withered.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:4 · Matt 12:9 · Mark 1:21 · Luke 6:6 · John 5:3

2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.Cross-references: Ps 37:32 · Isa 29:20 · Jer 20:10 · Dan 6:4 · Matt 12:10 · Luke 6:7 · +4 more

3He said to the man whose hand was withered, “Stand up.”Cross-references: Isa 42:4 · Dan 6:10 · Luke 6:8 · John 9:4 · 1Cor 15:58 · Gal 6:9 · +3 more

4He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent.Cross-references: Hos 6:6 · Matt 12:10 · Mark 2:27 · Mark 9:34 · Luke 6:9 · Luke 13:13 · +1 more

5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.Cross-references: Gen 6:6 · Judg 10:16 · 1Ki 13:6 · Neh 13:8 · Ps 95:10 · Isa 6:9 · +21 more

6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.Cross-references: Ps 109:3 · Matt 12:14 · Matt 22:16 · Mark 8:15 · Mark 12:13 · Luke 6:11 · +3 more

7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,Cross-references: Josh 20:7 · Josh 21:32 · Matt 4:25 · Matt 10:23 · Matt 12:15 · Mark 1:39 · +10 more

8from 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.Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Josh 13:8 · Josh 19:28 · Ps 45:12 · Ps 87:4 · Isa 23:1 · +8 more

9He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him.Cross-references: Mark 5:30 · John 6:15

10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.Cross-references: Gen 12:17 · Num 11:33 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:20 · Matt 12:15 · Matt 14:14 · +8 more

11The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him and cried, “You are the Son of God!”Cross-references: Matt 4:3 · Matt 4:6 · Matt 8:29 · Matt 8:31 · Matt 14:33 · Mark 1:1 · +7 more

12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 12:16 · Mark 1:25 · Mark 1:34 · Acts 16:18

13He went up into the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.Cross-references: Matt 5:1 · Matt 10:1 · Mark 6:7 · Luke 6:12 · Luke 9:1

14He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preachCross-references: Luke 9:1 · Luke 10:1 · Luke 24:47 · John 15:16 · Acts 1:8 · Acts 1:24 · +2 more

15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:

16Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);Cross-references: Matt 10:2 · Matt 16:16 · Mark 1:16 · Luke 6:14 · John 1:42 · Acts 1:13 · +5 more

17James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);Cross-references: Isa 58:1 · Jer 23:29 · Mark 1:19 · Mark 5:37 · Mark 9:2 · Mark 10:35 · +6 more

18Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;Cross-references: Matt 9:9 · Matt 10:3 · Matt 13:55 · Mark 2:14 · Mark 6:3 · Luke 5:27 · +19 more

19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.Cross-references: Matt 26:14 · Matt 26:47 · Matt 27:3 · John 6:64 · John 6:71 · John 12:4 · +3 more

20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.Cross-references: Mark 3:7 · Mark 3:9 · Mark 6:31 · Mark 7:17 · Mark 9:28 · Luke 6:17 · +1 more

21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”Cross-references: 2Ki 9:11 · Jer 29:26 · Hos 9:7 · Mark 3:31 · John 7:3 · John 10:20 · +2 more

22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”Cross-references: Ps 22:6 · Matt 9:34 · Matt 10:25 · Matt 11:18 · Matt 12:24 · Matt 15:1 · +7 more

23He summoned them and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?Cross-references: Ps 49:4 · Matt 4:10 · Matt 12:25 · Matt 13:34 · Mark 4:2 · Luke 11:17

24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.Cross-references: Judg 9:23 · Judg 12:1 · 2Sam 20:1 · 2Sam 20:6 · 1Ki 12:16 · Isa 9:20 · +6 more

25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · Gen 37:4 · Ps 133:1 · Gal 5:15 · James 3:16

26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end.

27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 49:24 · Isa 53:12 · Isa 61:1 · Matt 12:29 · +11 more

28“Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;Cross-references: Matt 12:31 · Luke 12:10 · Heb 6:4 · Heb 10:26 · 1John 5:16

29but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”Cross-references: Matt 12:31 · Matt 25:46 · Mark 12:40 · Luke 12:10 · 2Thess 1:9 · Jude 1:7 · +1 more

30—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”Cross-references: Mark 3:22 · John 10:20

31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.Cross-references: Matt 12:46 · Luke 8:19

32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

33He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”Cross-references: Deut 33:9 · Mark 3:21 · Mark 6:3 · Luke 2:49 · John 2:4 · John 7:3 · +1 more

34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!Cross-references: Ps 22:22 · Song 4:9 · Song 5:1 · Matt 12:49 · Matt 25:40 · Matt 28:10 · +4 more

35For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”Cross-references: Matt 7:21 · John 7:17 · James 1:25 · 1John 2:17 · 1John 3:22