Mark 3:1-9

A Man with a Withered Hand

1 ¹Again ²he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.

2 And ³they watched Jesus,^[a] to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come here."

4 And he said to them, ⁴"Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.

5 And he ⁵looked around at them with anger, grieved at ⁶their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." ⁷He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

6 ⁸The Pharisees went out and immediately ⁹held counsel with ¹⁰the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

7 ¹¹Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ¹²a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

8 and Jerusalem and ¹³Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ¹⁴Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.

9 And he told his disciples to ¹⁵have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ¹⁶crush him,