Mark 3
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Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
(Matthew 12:9–14; Luke 6:6–11)

1He wente agayne also in to the synagoge, and there was there a ma that had a wythred hande. 2And they marked him, whether he wolde heale him on the Sabbath, that they might accuse him. 3And he sayde vnto ye ma with the wythred hade: Steppe forth here. 4And he sayde vnto the: Is it laufull to do good on the Sabbath? Or is it laufull to do euell? to saue life, or to kyll? But they helde their tonge. 5And he loked rounde aboute vpon them with wrath, and was sory for the harde hertes of the, and sayde vnto the man: Stretch out thine hande. And he stretched it out. And his hande was made whole like as ye other. 6And the Pharises wete out, and straight waye they helde a councell with Herodes officers agaynst him, how they might destroye him.

Jesus Heals the Multitudes
(Matthew 4:23–25; Luke 6:17–19)

7But Iesus departed awaye with his disciples vnto the see. And there folowed him moch people out of Galile, and fro Iewry, 8and from Ierusale, and out of Idumea, and from beyonde Iordan, and they that dwelt aboute Tyre and Sydon, a greate multitude which had herde of his noble actes, and came vnto him. 9And he spake vnto his disciples yt they shulde kepe a shyppe for him because of the people, lest they shulde thrunge him: 10for he healed many of them, in so moch, that all they which were plaged,preased vpon him, that they might touch him. 11And whan the foule spretes sawe him, they fell downe before him, and cried, and sayde: Thou art the sonne of God. 12And he charged them strately, that they shulde not make him knowne.

The Twelve Apostles
(Matthew 10:1–4; Luke 6:12–16)

13And he wente vp in to a mountayne, and called vnto him whom he wolde, and they came vnto him. 14And he ordeyned ye twolue, that they shulde be with him, and that he might sende them out to preach, 15and that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuyls. 16And vnto Symon he gaue the name Peter, 17and Iames the sonne of Zebede, and Ihon the brother of Iames, and gaue the the name Bonarges, that is to saye, the children of thonder: 18and Andrew, and Philippe, and Bartylmew, and Mathew, and Thomas, and Iames ye sonne of Alpheus, and Taddeus, and Symon of Cana, 19and Iudas Iscarioth which betrayed him.And they came to house.

A House Divided
(Matthew 12:22–30; Luke 11:14–23)

20Then assembled the people together agayne, in so moch that they had no leysure to eate. 21And when they that were aboute him herde of it, they wente out to holde him. For they sayde: he taketh to moch vpon him. 22But the scrybes that were come downe from Ierusalem, sayde: He hath Belzebub, and thorow the chefe deuell casteth he out deuyls. 23And he called them together, and spake vnto them in symilitudes:How can one Sathan dryue out another? 24And yf a realme be deuyded in it self, how can it endure? 25And yf a house be deuyded agaynst it self, it can not contynue. 26Yf Sathan now ryse agaynst him self, and be at variaunce with him self, he can not endure, but is at an ende. 27No man can entre in to a stronge mans house, and take awaye his goodes, excepte he first bynde the stronge man, and then spoyle his house.

The Unpardonable Sin
(Matthew 12:31–32)

28Verely I saye vnto you: All synnes shalbe forgeuen the children of men, and the blasphemy also wherwith they blaspheme. 29But who so blasphemeth the holy goost, hath neuer forgeuenes, but is giltie of the euerlastinge iudgment. 30For they sayde: he hath an vncleane sprete.

Jesus’ Mother and Brothers
(Matthew 12:46–50; Luke 8:19–21)

31And there came his mother and his brethre, and stode without, and sente vnto him, and called him. 32And the people sat aboute him, and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thy mother and thy brethre axe after the without. 33And he answered, and sayde: Who is my mother and my brethren? 34And he loked rounde aboute him vpon his disciples, which sat rounde in compasse aboute him, and sayde: Beholde, my mother and my brethren. 35For who so euer doth the will of God the same is my brother, and my sister and my mother.


Coverdale Bible of 1535

Section Headings Courtesy Berean Bible

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