The Gospel According to Saint Mark
Chapter 3
1 – And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.
2 – And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days; that they might accuse him.
3 – And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.
4 – And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.
5 – And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.
6 – And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
7 – But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,
8 – And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan. And they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things which he did, came to him.
9 – And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10 – For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.
11 – And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying:
12 – Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.
13 – And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would himself: and they came to him.
14 – And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might send them to preach.
15 – And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.
16 – And to Simon he gave the name Peter:
17 – And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
18 – And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananean:
19 – And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
20 – And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
21 – And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.
22 – And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.
23 – And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?
24 – And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 – And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26 – And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end.
27 – No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder his house.
28 – Amen I say to you, that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme:
29 – But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.
30 – Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit.
31 – And his mother and his bretheren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
32 – And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
33 – And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren?
34 – And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my brethren.
35 – For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
The Catholic Bible Online. Scriptures are from The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible 1582-1610 a.d. Version In the Public Domain. The Douay Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English undertaken by members of the English College, Douai in the service of the Catholic Church.