Mark 1:12-28

12Immediately, the Holy Spirit sent Jesus out into the wilderness.

13Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days. During this time, Satan tried to cause him to do wrong things. There were wild animals with Jesus in the wilderness. God's angels took care of him.

14Later, John was in prison. At that time, Jesus went to Galilee. He told people the good news about God.

15Jesus said, ‘Now is the time when the kingdom of God has come very near. You have done many wrong things. Turn away from them and change the way that you live. Believe God's good news.’

16One day, Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee. He saw two brothers called Simon and Andrew. Their job was to catch fish. They were throwing their nets into the lake to catch fish.

17Jesus said to them, ‘Come with me and be my disciples. Then I will teach you how to catch people, instead of fish.’

18Simon and Andrew immediately put down their nets and they went with Jesus.

19Jesus continued to walk along the shore. Soon he saw two more men who were brothers. They were called James and John. They were the sons of Zebedee. They were in their boat and they were mending their nets.

20Immediately, Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father and his workers in the boat, and they went with Jesus to be his disciples.

21Then Jesus and those disciples went into a town called Capernaum. On the next Jewish day of rest, Jesus went into the Jews' meeting place. He began to teach the people there.

22The people were very surprised at the things that Jesus taught them. When he taught them, he showed his authority. That was not like the way that the teachers of God's Law taught people.

23In the meeting place, there was a man who had a bad spirit. The bad spirit caused the man to shout.

24He said, ‘Jesus from Nazareth, leave us alone! Do not kill us! I know who you are. You are the Holy One and God has sent you.’

25Jesus said to the bad spirit, ‘Be quiet! Come out of the man!’

26The bad spirit caused the man to shake and to fall down. It shouted loudly and then it came out of the man.

27All the people were very surprised and they said to each other, ‘This is very strange. This man Jesus is teaching us something new and he speaks with authority. He can tell bad spirits what they must do. Then they do it.’

28Immediately, people began to hear the news about Jesus. Everywhere in Galilee, people were talking about him.