Mark 3:1-3
HEALING THE WITHERED HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEALING THE WITHERED HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ENTERED AGAIN INTO THE SYNAGOGUE; AND THERE WAS A MAN THERE WHICH HAD A WITHERED HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WATCHED HIM, WHETHER HE WOULD HEAL HIM ON THE SABBATH-DAY, THAT THEY MIGHT ACCUSE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO THE MAN WHICH HAD THE WITHERED HAND, STAND FORTH. Again He entered, or, as Luke relates, more exactly, on another Sabbath, Luke 6:6, on the Sabbath following this one on which He had shown the real meaning of Sabbath and Sabbath-rest. Into a synagogue He went, whether into that of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, IS IT LAWFUL TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH-DAYS, OR TO DO EVIL? TO SAVE LIFE, OR TO KILL? BUT THEY HELD THEIR PEACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED ROUND ABOUT THEM WITH ANGER, BEING GRIEVED FOR THE HARDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS, HE SAITH UNTO THE MAN, STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND. AND HE STRETCHED IT OUT; AND HIS HAND WAS RESTORED WHOLE AS THE OTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PHARISEES WENT FORTH, AND STRAIGHTWAY TOOK COUNSEL WITH THE HERODIANS AGAINST HIM HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM. Jesus acted with the greatest patience and kindness. He tried to win His enemies by actual persuasion, by causing them to see the correctness of His position. His question to them is... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS WITHDREW HIMSELF WITH HIS DISCIPLES TO THE SEA; AND A GREAT MULTITUDE FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED" HIM, AND FROM JUDEA,... [ Continue Reading ]
MIRACLES BY THE SEASIDE. The withdrawal of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FROM JERUSALEM, AND FROM IDUMEA, AND FROM BEYOND JORDAN; AND THEY ABOUT TYRE AND SIDON, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHEN THEY HEARD WHAT GREAT THINGS HE DID, CAME UNTO HIM. Jesus made use of discretion and prudence. He knew the plans of the Pharisees, and therefore He withdrew from their wiles and persec... [ Continue Reading ]
Miracles of healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE TO HIS DISCIPLES THAT A SMALL SHIP SHOULD WAIT ON HIM BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE, LEST THEY SHOULD THRONG HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE HAD HEALED MANY, INSOMUCH THAT THEY PRESSED UPON HIM FOR TO TOUCH HIM, AS MANY AS HAD PLAGUES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS, WHEN THEY SAW HIM, FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM AND CRIED, SAYING, THOU ART THE SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE STRAITLY CHARGED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT MAKE HIM KNOWN. So great were the crowds that came to the seaside to see Jesus that He was obliged to take precautions. He gave His disciples instructions that they should have a small boat ready at all times, with the oars, sails, and the necessary... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GOETH UP INTO A MOUNTAIN, AND CALLETH UNTO HIM WHOM HE WOULD; AND THEY CAME UNTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The call of the Twelve:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ORDAINED TWELVE THAT THEY SHOULD BE WITH HIM, AND THAT HE MIGHT SEND THEM FORTH TO PREACH,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO HAVE POWER TO HEAL SICKNESSES, AND TO CAST OUT DEVILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SIMON HE SURNAMED PETER;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JAMES, THE SON OF ZEBEDEE, AND JOHN, THE BROTHER OF JAMES; AND HE SURNAMED THEM BOANERGES, WHICH IS, THE SONS OF THUNDER;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANDREW, AND PHILIP, AND BARTHOLOMEW, AND MATTHEW, AND THOMAS, AND JAMES, THE SON OF ALPHAEUS, AND THADDAEUS, AND SIMON THE CANAANITE,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, WHICH ALSO BETRAYED HIM. AND THEY WENT INTO AN HOUSE. In the neighborhood of the sea, where Jesus had been performing the miracles, there was a mountain, later simply known among the apostles by this name; in a lonely region. Jesus managed to dismiss the multitudes for a time, si... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MULTITUDE COMETH TOGETHER AGAIN, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The friends of Jesus think Him out of His senses:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HIS FRIENDS HEARD OF IT, THEY WENT OUT TO LAY HOLD ON HIM; FOR THEY SAID, HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF. No sooner had Jesus returned to the city and to the house, no sooner had He come home, than a crowd again assembled. So urgent were they in their demand to see Him that Christ and His disciples w... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SCRIBES WHICH CAME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM SAID, HE HATH BEELZEBUB, AND BY THE PRINCE OF THE DEVILS CASTETH HE OUT DEVILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE ON THE CASTING OUT OF DEVILS. The pharisaic theory and the defense of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CALLED THEM UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO THEM IN PARABLES, HOW CAN SATAN CAST OUT SATAN?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF A KINGDOM BE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, THAT KINGDOM CANNOT STAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF A HOUSE BE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, THAT HOUSE CANNOT STAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF SATAN RISE UP AGAINST HIMSELF, AND BE DIVIDED, HE CANNOT STAND, BUT HATH AN END.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN CAN ENTER INTO A STRONG MAN'S HOUSE AND SPOIL HIS GOODS EXCEPT HE WILL FIRST BIND THE STRONG MAN; AND THEN HE WILL SPOIL HIS HOUSE. The work of Jesus had been characterized especially by the healing of demoniacs, a cure both difficult and pronounced. It was for this reason that the enemies of... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, ALL SINS SHALL BE FORGIVEN UNTO THE SONS OF MEN, AND BLASPHEMIES WHEREWITH SOEVER THEY SHALL BLASPHEME;... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning against the unforgivable sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT SHALL BLASPHEME AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST HATH NEVER FORGIVENESS, BUT IS IN DANGER OF ETERNAL DAMNATION:... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THEY SAID, HE HATH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT. With solemn emphasis Jesus gives the Pharisees this warning. Jesus knew that the scribes did not believe their own theory as to His ability to cast out devils. "You are not merely mistaken theorists, you are men in a very perilous moral condition. Beware... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE CAME THEN HIS BRETHREN AND HIS MOTHER, AND, STANDING WITHOUT, SENT UNTO HIM, CALLING HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The true relatives of the Lord:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MULTITUDE SAT ABOUT HIM, AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THY MOTHER AND THY BRETHREN WITHOUT SEEK FOR THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, WHO IS MY MOTHER, OR MY BRETHREN?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LOOKED ROUND ABOUT ON THEM WHICH SAT ABOUT HIM, AND SAID, BEHOLD MY MOTHER AND MY BRETHREN!... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL DO THE WILL OF GOD, THE SAME IS MY BROTHER, AND MY SISTER, AND MOTHER. Jesus had barely finished His discourse directed to the Pharisees, when there came an interruption. We were told that His kinsmen had gotten ready to save Him against the probable loss of His reason, v. 21. Th... [ Continue Reading ]