Marco 3
La Nuova Diodati
3 Poi egli entrò di nuovo nella sinagoga, e là c'era un uomo che aveva una mano secca.
2 Ed essi lo stavano ad osservare per vedere se lo avesse guarito in giorno di sabato, per poi accusarlo,
3 Ed egli disse all'uomo che aveva la mano secca: «Alzati in mezzo a tutti!».
4 Poi disse loro: «E' lecito in giorno di sabato fare del bene o del male, salvare una vita o annientarla?». Ma essi tacevano.
5 Allora egli, guardatili tutt'intorno con indignazione, rattristato per la durezza del loro cuore, disse a quell'uomo: «Stendi la tua mano!». Egli la stese e la sua mano fu risanata come l'altra.
6 E i farisei, usciti, tennero subito consiglio con gli erodiani contro di lui come farlo morire.
7 Ma Gesú si ritirò con i suoi discepoli verso il mare; e una gran folla lo seguí dalla Galilea e dalla Giudea,
8 ed anche da Gerusalemme, dall'Idumea e da oltre il Giordano; similmente una gran folla dai dintorni di Tiro e di Sidone, udendo le grandi cose che egli faceva, venne a lui.
9 Allora egli disse ai suoi discepoli di tenergli sempre pronta una barchetta per non essere schiacciato dalla folla.
10 Poiché egli ne aveva guariti molti, tutti quelli che avevano malattie si accalcavano attorno a lui per toccarlo,
11 E gli spiriti immondi, quando lo vedevano, si prostravano davanti a lui e gridavano, dicendo: «Tu sei il Figlio di Dio!».
12 Ma egli li sgridava severamente, perché non dicessero chi egli fosse.
13 Poi egli salí sul monte, chiamò presso di sé Quelli che volle; ed essi si avvicinarono a lui.
14 Quindi ne costituí dodici perché stessero con lui e potesse mandarli a predicare,
15 e avessero il potere di guarire le infermità e di scacciare i demoni.
16 Essi erano: Simone al quale pose nome Pietro;
17 Giacomo figlio di Zebedeo e Giovanni fratello di Giacomo, ai quali diede il nome di Boanerges, che vuol dire: "Figli del tuono";
18 Andrea, Filippo, Bartolomeo, Matteo, Tommaso, Giacomo di Alfeo, Taddeo, Simone il Cananeo,
19 e Giuda Iscariota, quello che poi lo tradí.
20 Poi entrarono in una casa. E la folla si radunò di nuovo, tanto che non potevano neppure prendere cibo.
21 E quando i suoi parenti udirono ciò, uscirono per prenderlo, perché dicevano: «Egli è fuori di sé»
22 Ma gli scribi, che erano discesi da Gerusalemme, dicevano: «Egli ha Beelzebub e scaccia i demoni con l'aiuto del principe dei demoni».
23 Ma egli, chiamatili a sé, disse loro in parabole: «Come può Satana scacciare Satana?
24 E se un regno è diviso contro se stesso, quel regno non può durare.
25 E se una casa è divisa in parti contrarie, quella casa non può durare.
26 Cosí, se Satana insorge contro se stesso ed è diviso, non può durare, ma è giunto alla fine.
27 Nessuno può entrare in casa dell'uomo forte e rapirgli i suoi beni, se prima non ha legato l'uomo forte; solo allora potrà saccheggiare la sua casa.
28 In verità vi dico che ai figli degli uomini sarà perdonato ogni peccato e qualunque bestemmia essi diranno;
29 ma chiunque bestemmierà contro lo Spirito Santo, non ha perdono in eterno; ma è sottoposto a giudizio eterno».
30 Asseriva questo perché dicevano: «Egli ha uno spirito immondo».
31 Nel frattempo giunsero i suoi fratelli e sua madre e, fermatisi fuori, lo mandarono a chiamare.
32 Or la folla sedeva intorno a lui; e gli dissero: «Ecco, tua madre e i tuoi fratelli sono là fuori e ti cercano».
33 Ma egli rispose loro, dicendo: «Chi è mia madre, o i miei fratelli?».
34 Poi guardando in giro su coloro che gli sedevano intorno, disse: «Ecco mia madre e i miei fratelli.
35 Poiché chiunque fa la volontà di Dio, questi è mio fratello, mia sorella e madre».
Mark 3
EasyEnglish Bible
Jesus makes a man well
3 Another time, Jesus went into the Jewish meeting place. A man was there. His hand was very small and weak, so he could not use it. 2 Some Pharisees were watching Jesus carefully. They wanted to find a reason to say that Jesus was doing wrong things. It was the Jewish day of rest. So the Pharisees watched Jesus to see if he would make the man well on this day. 3 Jesus said to the man, ‘Stand here in front of everyone.’
4 Then Jesus said to the Pharisees, ‘Is it right for us to do good things on our day of rest? Or should we do bad things? Should we save a person's life? Or should we kill people?’
Nobody said anything.
5 Jesus looked round at everybody. He felt angry with them. He also felt sad because they did not want to learn. Then he said to the man, ‘Lift up your hand.’ The man lifted his hand and it became well. He could use it again. 6 The Pharisees left the meeting place immediately. They went to meet with some other people who were friends with the ruler, Herod.[a] The Pharisees talked with them about how they could kill Jesus.
Crowds follow Jesus
7 Jesus left that place and he went away to Lake Galilee with his disciples. A large crowd of people from Galilee followed them. 8 Many people also came to him from Judea, from Jerusalem and from a region of Israel called Idumea. They also came from places on the other side of the Jordan River, and from the towns called Tyre and Sidon. Many people had heard about the things that Jesus was doing. That is why all these people came to him. 9 The crowd was very large. So Jesus asked his disciples to prepare a small boat for him. They did this so that the people would not push against him. 10 Sick people were pushing to the front, because they were trying to touch him. They knew that he had made many people well. 11 Often, a person with a bad spirit saw Jesus. Then, the spirit caused the person to fall down on the ground in front of Jesus. The spirit caused that person to shout out, ‘You are the Son of God.’ 12 Jesus often had to say to the bad spirits, ‘You must not tell anyone who I am.’
Jesus chooses 12 apostles
13 Jesus went up a mountain. He chose some men and he asked them to go there with him. So they met together with him there. 14 He chose a group of 12 men. He called them his apostles.[b] He wanted them to be with him. And he would send them to teach people about God. 15 He gave these men authority to cause bad spirits to leave people. 16 These are the names of the 12 apostles:
Simon, (Jesus called him Peter).
17 James and John who were the sons of Zebedee. Jesus called them ‘Boanerges’. It means ‘men who are like thunder’.
18 Andrew,
Philip,
Bartholomew,
Matthew,[c]
Thomas,
James, who was the son of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus,[d]
Simon the Zealot
19 and Judas Iscariot, who later gave Jesus to his enemies.
Jesus talks about Satan
20 Then Jesus went into a house. A crowd of people came together there again. There were so many people that Jesus and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 People told his family what was happening. So they went to take him away with them. They thought that Jesus was crazy.[e]
22 Some teachers of God's Law came from Jerusalem. They said, ‘Jesus has a bad spirit called Beelzebul in him. That is Satan, the one who rules all the bad spirits. This man can send bad spirits out of people because Satan gives him authority.’[f]
23 So Jesus spoke to the teachers of God's Law. He said, ‘Come here and listen to me.’ He used stories to explain to them, ‘Satan would not fight against himself! 24 If armies in the same country start to fight each other, then they will destroy their own country. 25 And if the people in one family start to fight against each other, they will destroy their own family. 26 So Satan would not attack himself. If he did that, he would destroy his own power. That would be the end of him. 27 Nobody can easily go into the house of a strong man to rob him. To do that, he must first tie up the strong man. Then he can take away all that man's valuable things. 28 I tell you this: God can forgive all the wrong things that people do. He can also forgive people who say bad things against him. 29 But God will never forgive people who say bad things against the Holy Spirit. Those people will always be guilty of a terrible sin.’
30 Jesus said that to the teachers of God's Law, because they had said, ‘Jesus has a bad spirit in him.’
Jesus' mother and his brothers come to look for him
31 Then, Jesus' mother and his brothers arrived and they stood outside the house. They sent someone into the house with a message. They wanted Jesus to come out to speak to them. 32 A crowd of people was sitting around Jesus. Somebody said to him, ‘Look! Your mother and brothers are outside. They are looking for you.’
33 Jesus replied, ‘I will tell you who my mother and brothers really are.’
34 Then he looked at the people who were sitting around him. He said, ‘Look! Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 My brothers and sisters and my mother are the people who do what God wants.’[g]
Footnotes
- 3:6 The people who were friends with Herod were important Jews. Herod ruled part of Israel on behalf of the Romans. His friends were happy because the Romans had authority in Israel. They did not like Jesus. They thought that he would cause problems for Herod.
- 3:14 Jesus had many disciples. He chose 12 of them to be with him, so that he could teach them. He also called these 12 men apostles. The word apostle means that someone has sent the person out to do a job. Their job was to tell other people about Jesus.
- 3:18 Matthew is another name for Levi.
- 3:18 In Luke 6:16, Thaddaeus is called Judas, the son of James.
- 3:21 Jesus' family lived in Nazareth, which was 40 kilometres away from Capernaum.
- 3:22 Beelzebul is another name for Satan. They are both names for God's greatest enemy.
- 3:35 People who believe in Jesus become part of the family of God.
Mark 3
New King James Version
Healing on the Sabbath(A)
3 And (B)He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2 So they (C)watched Him closely, whether He would (D)heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might [a]accuse Him. 3 And He said to the man who had the withered hand, [b]“Step forward.” 4 Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. 5 And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the (E)hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored [c]as whole as the other. 6 (F)Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with (G)the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
A Great Multitude Follows Jesus(H)
7 But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, (I)and from Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how (J)many things He was doing, came to Him. 9 So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him. 10 For He healed (K)many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to (L)touch Him. 11 (M)And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, (N)“You are the Son of God.” 12 But (O)He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.
The Twelve Apostles(P)
13 (Q)And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. 14 Then He appointed twelve, [d]that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, 15 and to have [e]power [f]to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 16 [g]Simon, (R)to whom He gave the name Peter; 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, “Sons of Thunder”; 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite; 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house.
A House Divided Cannot Stand(S)
20 Then the multitude came together again, (T)so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 But when His (U)own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, (V)for they said, “He is out of His mind.”
22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, (W)“He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the (X)ruler of the demons He casts out demons.”
23 (Y)So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27 (Z)No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
The Unpardonable Sin(AA)
28 (AB)“Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; 29 but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”— 30 because they (AC)said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Jesus’ Mother and Brothers Send for Him(AD)
31 (AE)Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. 32 And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers [h]are outside seeking You.”
33 But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” 34 And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! 35 For whoever does the (AF)will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.”
Footnotes
- Mark 3:2 bring charges against
- Mark 3:3 Lit. Arise into the midst
- Mark 3:5 NU omits as whole as the other
- Mark 3:14 NU adds whom He also named apostles
- Mark 3:15 authority
- Mark 3:15 NU omits to heal sicknesses and
- Mark 3:16 NU and He appointed the twelve: Simon . . .
- Mark 3:32 NU, M add and Your sisters
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