Mark 3:1-10 ▼

1 Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there.

2 The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

3 He told the man with the paralyzed hand, |Come forward.|

4 Then he asked them, |Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?| But they remained silent.

5 Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, |Hold out your hand.| The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.

6 Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

7 So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,

8 Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

9 Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him,

10 because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.