MARKUS 3
Die man met die gebreklike hand
(Matt. 12:9-14; Luk. 6:6-11)
1 Jesus het weer na die sinagoge toe gegaan. Daar was 'n man met 'n gebreklike hand. 2 Die Fariseërs het vir Jesus dopgehou om te sien of Hy hom op die sabbatdag sou gesond maak, sodat hulle vir Jesus daaroor kon aankla. 3 Hy sê toe vir die man met die gebreklike hand: “Staan op hier tussen hulle!”
4 Daarna vra Hy vir hulle: “Mag 'n mens op die sabbatdag goed doen of kwaad doen, iemand red of doodmaak?” Hulle het egter niks gesê nie.
5 Hy het hulle rondom Hom kwaad aangekyk en was diep bedroef oor hulle verhardheid. Hy sê toe vir die man: “Steek jou hand uit!” Hy het sy hand uitgesteek en dit was gesond.
6 Die Fariseërs het uitgegaan en dadelik met die Herodiane 'n komplot teen Jesus gesmee om Hom om die lewe te bring.
'n Groot toeloop van mense na Jesus toe
(Matt. 4:24-25; 12:15-17; Luk. 6:17-19; 4:41)
7 Jesus het toe met sy dissipels teruggegaan na die see toe. 'n Menigte mense het van Galilea af agter Hom aan gegaan. Ook van Judea af, 8 en uit Jerusalem en van Idumea en van oorkant die Jordaan en van rondom Tirus en Sidon af, het daar baie mense na Hom toe gekom toe hulle hoor wat Hy alles doen.
9 Weens die gedrang het Hy vir sy dissipels gesê om vir Hom 'n skuitjie reg te hou sodat die mense Hom nie vertrap nie. 10 Hy het baie mense gesond gemaak, sodat almal wat die een of ander siekte gehad het, Hom oorval het om aan Hom te raak.
11 As mense wat van onrein geeste besete was, Hom sien, het hulle voor Hom neergeslaan en geskreeu: “U is die Seun van God!” 12 Maar Hy het hulle baie uitdruklik belet om bekend te maak wie Hy is.
Die aanstelling van die twaalf apostels
(Matt. 10:1-4; Luk. 6:12-16)
13 Jesus het teen die berg opgegaan en dié wat Hy wou hê, nader geroep, en hulle het na Hom toe gekom. 14 Hy het toe twaalf, wat Hy apostels genoem het, aangestel om by Hom te bly sodat Hy hulle kon uitstuur om te preek. 15 Hulle het ook die mag ontvang om bose geeste uit te drywe. 16 Hy het hierdie twaalf aangestel: Petrus, soos Hy Simon genoem het, 17 Jakobus seun van Sebedeus, en Johannes die broer van Jakobus — vir hulle het Hy die bynaam Boanerges gegee, dit wil sê “manne van die donder” — 18 Andreas, Filippus, Bartolomeus, Matteus, Tomas, Jakobus seun van Alfeus, Taddeus, Simon die Kananeër, 19 en Judas Iskariot wat vir Jesus verraai het.
Die lastering teen die Heilige Gees
(Matt. 12:22-32; Luk. 11:14-23; 12:10)
20 Daarna het Jesus huis toe gegaan. 'n Menigte mense het weer saamgedrom, sodat daar selfs nie geleentheid was om 'n stukkie te eet nie. 21 Toe sy familie hiervan hoor, het hulle gegaan om Hom te gaan haal, want hulle het gesê: “Hy het van sy kop af geraak.”
22 Die skrifgeleerdes wat van Jerusalem af gekom het, het gesê: “Hy is van Beëlsebul besete!” en “Dit is met die hulp van die aanvoerder van die bose geeste dat hy bose geeste uitdrywe.”
23 Jesus het hulle nader geroep en hulle met voorbeelde geantwoord: “Hoe kan die Satan die Satan uitdrywe? 24 As 'n koninkryk onderling verdeeld is, kan daardie koninkryk nie bly staan nie; 25 en as 'n huisgesin onderling verdeeld is, sal daardie huisgesin nie kan bly staan nie. 26 As die Satan teen homself in opstand kom en verdeeld is, kan hy nie bly staan nie, maar is dit sy einde.
27 “Bowendien kan niemand in 'n sterk man se huis ingaan en sy goed vat as hy nie vooraf die sterk man vasbind nie. Eers dan sal hy sy huis kan beroof.
28 “Dit verseker Ek julle: Alles sal die mense vergewe kan word, al die sondige lastertaal wat hulle praat. 29 Wie egter teen die Heilige Gees laster, word tot in ewigheid nie vergewe nie maar bly ewig skuldig aan die sonde.”
30 Dit het Hy gesê omdat hulle gesê het: “Hy is van 'n onrein gees besete.”
Die moeder en die broers van Jesus
(Matt. 12:46-50; Luk. 8:19-21)
31 Sy moeder en sy broers het toe gekom. Hulle het buite bly staan en 'n boodskap na Hom toe gestuur om Hom te roep. 32 'n Menigte mense het rondom Hom gesit. Hulle sê toe vir Hom: “Kyk, u moeder en u broers en u susters daar buite soek U.”
33 Maar Hy sê vir hulle: “Wie is my moeder en my broers?”
34 Hy het die mense aangekyk wat in 'n kring om Hom sit en gesê: “Hier is my moeder en my broers! 35 Elkeen wat die wil van God doen, is my broer en my suster en my moeder.”
Mark 3
1 AGAIN JESUS went into a synagogue, and a man was there who had one withered hand [as the result of accident or disease].2 And [the Pharisees] kept watching Jesus [closely] to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might get a charge to bring against Him [formally].3 And He said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up [and stand here] in the midst.4 And He said to them, Is it lawful and right on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to take it? But they kept silence.5 And He glanced around at them with vexation and anger, grieved at the hardening of their hearts, and said to the man, Hold out your hand. He held it out, and his hand was [completely] restored.6 Then the Pharisees went out and immediately held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, how they might [devise some means to] put Him to death.7 And Jesus retired with His disciples to the lake, and a great throng from Galilee followed Him. Also from Judea8 And from Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon--a vast multitude, hearing all the many things that He was doing, came to Him.9 And He told His disciples to have a little boat in [constant] readiness for Him because of the crowd, lest they press hard upon Him and crush Him.10 For He had healed so many that all who had distressing bodily diseases kept falling upon Him and pressing upon Him in order that they might touch Him.11 And the spirits, the unclean ones, as often as they might see Him, fell down before Him and kept screaming out, You are the Son of God!12 And He charged them strictly and severely under penalty again and again that they should not make Him known.13 And He went up on the hillside and called to Him [for Himself] those whom He wanted and chose, and they came to Him.14 And He appointed twelve to continue to be with Him, and that He might send them out to preach [as apostles or special messengers]15 And to have authority and power to heal the sick and to drive out demons:16 [They were] Simon, and He surnamed [him] Peter;17 James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, and He surnamed them Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder;18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew (Nathaniel), and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas, not Iscariot), and Simon the Cananaean [also called Zelotes],19 And Judas Iscariot, he who betrayed Him.20 Then He went to a house [probably Peter’s], but a throng came together again, so that Jesus and His disciples could not even take food.21 And when those who belonged to Him (His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of His mind (beside Himself, deranged)!22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and, By [the help of] the prince of demons He is casting out demons.23 And He summoned them to Him and said to them in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), How can Satan drive out Satan?24 And if a kingdom is divided and rebelling against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.25 And if a house is divided (split into factions and rebelling) against itself, that house will not be able to last.26 And if Satan has raised an insurrection against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is [surely] coming to an end.27 But no one can go into a strong man’s house and ransack his household goods right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house. 28 Truly and solemnly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever abusive and blasphemous things they utter;29 But whoever speaks abusively against or maliciously misrepresents the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of and is in the grasp of an everlasting trespass.30 For they persisted in saying, He has an unclean spirit.31 Then His mother and His brothers came and, standing outside, they sent word to Him, calling [for] Him.32 And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, Your mother and Your brothers and Your sisters are outside asking for You.33 And He replied, Who are My mother and My brothers?34 And looking around on those who sat in a circle about Him, He said, See! Here are My mother and My brothers;35 For whoever does the things God wills is My brother and sister and mother!