Mark 3:3-15

3So he told the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stand in the center ⌞of the synagogue⌟.”

4Then he asked them, “Is it right to do good or to do evil on the day of rest—a holy day, to give a person back his health or to let him die?” But they were silent.

5Jesus was angry as he looked around at them. He was deeply hurt because their minds were closed. Then he told the man, “Hold out your hand.” The man held it out, and his hand became normal again.

6The Pharisees left, and with Herod’s followers they immediately plotted to kill Jesus.

7Jesus left with his disciples for the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,

8Jerusalem, Idumea, and from across the Jordan River, and from around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they had heard about everything he was doing.

9Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready so that the crowd would not crush him.

10He had cured so many that everyone with a disease rushed up to him in order to touch him.

11Whenever people with evil spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and shout, “You are the Son of God!”

12He gave them orders not to tell people who he was.

13Jesus went up a mountain, called those whom he wanted, and they came to him.

14He appointed twelve whom he called apostles. They were to accompany him and to be sent out by him to spread ⌞the Good News⌟.

15They also had the authority to force demons out of people.