✠ The Douay-Rheims Bible
✠ Mark 3
Chapters
MK 3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.
MK 3:2 And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days; that they might accuse him.
MK 3:3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.
MK 3:4 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.
MK 3:5 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.
MK 3:6 And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
MK 3:7 But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,
MK 3:8 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.
MK 3:9 And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
MK 3:10 For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.
MK 3:11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying:
MK 3:12 Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.
MK 3:13 And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would himself: and they came to him.
MK 3:14 And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might send them to preach.
MK 3:15 And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.
MK 3:16 And to Simon he gave the name Peter:
MK 3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
MK 3:18 And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananean:
MK 3:19 And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
MK 3:20 And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
MK 3:21 And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.
MK 3:22 And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.
MK 3:23 And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?
MK 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
MK 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
MK 3:26 And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end.
MK 3:27 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.
MK 3:28 Amen I say to you, that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme:
MK 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.
MK 3:30 Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit.
MK 3:31 And his mother and his bretheren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
MK 3:32 And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
MK 3:33 And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren?
MK 3:34 And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my brethren.
MK 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.