Mark 3:6-12

6 ¹The Pharisees went out and immediately ²held counsel with ³the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

7 ⁴Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ⁵a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

8 and Jerusalem and ⁶Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ⁷Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.

9 And he told his disciples to ⁸have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ⁹crush him,

10 for ¹⁰he had healed many, so that all who had ¹¹diseases pressed around him ¹²to touch him.

11 ¹³And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ¹⁴fell down before him and cried out, “You are ¹⁵the Son of God. ”

12 And ¹⁶he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

Cross References

• 1. 3:6 See Matt. 12:14
• 2. 3:6 See Matt. 12:14
• 3. 3:6 ch. 12:13; Matt. 22:16; [ch. 8:15]
• 4. 3:7 Matt. 12:15
• 5. 3:7 Matt. 4:25; Luke 6:17
• 6. 3:8 Isa. 34:5; Ezek. 35:15
• 7. 3:8 See Matt. 11:21
• 8. 3:9 ch. 6:32, 45 (Gk.); 8:10 (Gk.)
• 9. 3:9 ch. 5:24, 31
• 10. 3:10 See Matt. 4:23
• 11. 3:10 ch. 5:29, 34
• 12. 3:10 ch. 6:56; Matt. 9:20, 21; 14:36; Luke 6:19
• 13. 3:11 ch. 1:26, 34; Luke 4:41
• 14. 3:11 Luke 8:28
• 15. 3:11 See Matt. 14:33
• 16. 3:12 See Matt. 12:16