Mark 3:3-15

3He told the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand before us.”

4Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

5After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

6Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might kill him.

7Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee, and a large crowd followed from Judea,

8Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing.

9Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him.

10Since he had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward him to touch him.

11Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”

12And he would strongly warn them not to make him known.

13Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those he wanted, and they came to him.

14He appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, to send them out to preach,

15and to have authority to drive out demons.