The Gospel According to Mark
1:1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 1:2As it is written in the prophets,
"Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
Who will prepare your way before you.
1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make ready the way of the Lord!
Make his paths straight!'"
1:4John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. 1:5All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. 1:6John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey. 1:7He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. 1:8I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
1:9It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 1:10Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 1:11A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
1:12Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. 1:13He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels ministered to him.
1:14Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, 1:15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the gospel."
1:16Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen. 1:17Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."
1:18Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. 1:19Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. 1:21They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 1:22They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 1:23Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 1:24saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
1:25Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"
1:26The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 1:27They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" 1:28The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
1:29Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 1:30Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 1:31He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them. 1:32At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. 1:33All the city was gathered together at the door. 1:34He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.
1:35Early in the night, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. 1:36Simon and those who were with him followed after him; 1:37and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."
1:38He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this reason I came forth." 1:39He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
1:40There came to him a leper, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
1:41Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." 1:42When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 1:43He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out, 1:44and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
1:45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
2:1When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 2:2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 2:3Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 2:4When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. 2:5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
2:6But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 2:7"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
2:8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 2:9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' 2:10But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic -- 2:11"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
2:12He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
2:13He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 2:14As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.
2:15It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. 2:16The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
2:18John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
2:19Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast. 2:20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. 2:21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. 2:22No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
2:23It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. 2:24The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
2:25He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry -- he, and they who were with him? 2:26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" 2:27He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 2:28Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
3:1He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 3:2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3:3He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 3:4He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent. 3:5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. 3:6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
3:7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 3:8from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. 3:9He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. 3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. 3:11The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 3:12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
3:13He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 3:14He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 3:15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 3:16Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 3:17James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 3:18Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 3:19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
He came into a house. 3:20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 3:21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 3:22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."
3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 3:24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 3:25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 3:26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 3:27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. 3:28Most assuredly I tell you, all of the sons of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 3:29but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 3:30-- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
3:31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 3:32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."
3:33He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 3:34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."
4:1Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. 4:2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 4:3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, 4:4and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. 4:5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 4:6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 4:7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."4:9He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 4:11He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 4:12that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
4:13He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 4:14The farmer sows the word. 4:15These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 4:16These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 4:18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 4:20These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
4:21He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand? 4:22For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. 4:23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:24He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. 4:25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."
4:26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 4:27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 4:28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 4:29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
4:30He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 4:31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 4:32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 4:34Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.
4:35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." 4:36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 4:37There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 4:38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
4:39He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 4:40He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"
4:41They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
5:1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 5:2When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 5:3who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, 5:4because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. 5:5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 5:6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 5:7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." 5:8For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
5:9He asked him, "What is your name?"
He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 5:10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 5:11Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. 5:12All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."
5:13At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. 5:14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
The people came to see what it was that had happened. 5:15They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. 5:16Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. 5:17They began to beg him to depart from their region.
5:18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 5:19He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."
5:20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
5:21When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. 5:22Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 5:23and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."
5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 5:25A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 5:26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 5:27having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 5:28For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." 5:29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
5:30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
5:31His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
5:32He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 5:33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
5:34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
5:35While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"
5:36But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." 5:37He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 5:38He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. 5:39When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
5:40They laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. 5:41Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up." 5:42Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. 5:43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
6:1He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. 6:2When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? 6:3Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.
6:4Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house." 6:5He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them. 6:6He marveled because of their unbelief.
He went around the villages teaching. 6:7He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 6:8He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, 6:9but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. 6:10He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. 6:11Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
6:12They went out and preached that people should repent. 6:13They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. 6:14King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." 6:15But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets." 6:16But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." 6:17For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. 6:18For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't, 6:20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
6:21Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 6:22When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." 6:23He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
6:24She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"
She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
6:25She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."
6:26The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her. 6:27Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, 6:28and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
6:29When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
6:30The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. 6:31He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 6:32They went away in the boat to a desert place by themselves. 6:33They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him. 6:34Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 6:35When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. 6:36Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."
6:37But he answered them, "You give them something to eat."
They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
6:38He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see."
When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
6:39He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. 6:40They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. 6:41He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. 6:42They all ate, and were filled. 6:43They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. 6:44Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
6:45Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. 6:46After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
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