Mark 3:1-12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

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