Mark 3:1-9 ▼

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,