NIV Butterfly Garden Holy Bible Book of Mark, "Prayer Is..., Getting to Know Jesus | Page 5

Mark 2:22  l  860
new p
­ iece will pull away from the old,
mak­ing the tear ­worse. 22 And no one pours
new wine into old wine­skins. Other­wise,
the wine will b
­ urst the ­skins, and both the
wine and the wine­skins will be ru­ined. No,
they pour new wine into new wine­skins.” dis­eas­es were push­ing for­ward to ­touch
him. 11   When­ev­er the im­pure spir­its saw
him, they fell down be­fore him and ­cried
out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 But he gave
them s ­ trict or­ders not to tell oth­ers a
­ bout
him.
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath ­Jesus Appoints the Twelve
23  One Sab­bath ­Jesus was go­ing ­through
the grain­fields, and as his dis­ci­ples ­walked
along, they be­gan to pick some ­heads of
­grain. 24 The Phar­i­sees said to him, “Look,
why are they do­ing what is un­law­ful on the
Sab­bath?”
25   He an­swered, “Have you nev­er read
what Da­vid did when he and his com­pan­
ions were hun­gry and in need? 26 In the
days of Abi­a­thar the high p
­ riest, he en­tered
the h
­ ouse of God and ate the con­se­crat­ed
bread, ­which is law­ful only for p
­ riests to
eat. And he also gave some to his com­pan­
ions.”
27 Then he said to them, “The Sab­bath
was made for man, not man for the Sab­
bath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of
the Sab­bath.” 13 ­Jesus went up on a moun­tain­side and
c ­ alled to him t ­ hose he want­ed, and they
came to him. 14   He ap­point­ed ­twelve  a that
they ­might be with him and that he m
­ ight
send them out to ­preach 15 and to have au­
thor­i­ty to ­drive out de­mons. 16 These are
the ­twelve he ap­point­ed: Si­mon (to whom
he gave the name Pe­ter), 17 James son of
Zeb­e­dee and his broth­er John (to them he
gave the name Bo­a­ner­ges, ­which ­means
“sons of thun­der”), 18   An­drew, Phil­ip, Bar­
thol­o­mew, Mat­thew, Thom­as, ­James son
of Al­phae­us, Thad­dae­us, Si­mon the Zeal­ot
19  and Ju­das Is­car­i­ot, who be­trayed him.
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
3
An­oth­er time ­Jesus went into the syn­a­
gogue, and a man with a shriv­eled hand
was ­there. 2 Some of them were look­ing for
a rea­son to ac­cuse ­Jesus, so they ­watched
him close­ly to see if he ­would heal him on
the Sab­bath. 3 ­Jesus said to the man with
the shriv­eled hand, “Stand up in ­front of
ev­ery­one.”
4  Then ­Jesus ­asked them, “Which is law­
ful on the Sab­bath: to do good or to do evil,
to save life or to kill?” But they re­mained
si­lent.
5 He ­looked ­around at them in an­ger and,
deep­ly dis­tressed at ­their stub­born ­hearts,
said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”
He ­stretched it out, and his hand was com­
plete­ly re­stored. 6  Then the Phar­i­sees went
out and be­gan to plot with the He­ro­di­ans
how they m
­ ight kill ­Jesus.
Crowds Follow ­Jesus
7 ­Jesus with­drew with his dis­ci­ples to
the lake, and a ­large ­crowd from Gal­i­lee
fol­lowed. 8 When they h
­ eard a
­ bout all he
was do­ing, many peo­ple came to him from
Ju­dea, Je­ru­sa­lem, Id­u­mea, and the re­gions
across the Jor­dan and a
­ round Tyre and Si­
don. 9 Be­cause of the c ­ rowd he told his dis­
ci­ples to have a s ­ mall boat r ­ eady for him, to
keep the peo­ple from crowd­ing him. 10 For
he had ­healed many, so that ­those with
J ­ esus Accused by His Family and
by Teachers of the Law
20 Then ­Jesus en­tered a h
­ ouse, and ­again
a ­crowd gath­ered, so that he and his dis­ci­
ples were not even able to eat. 21 When his
fam­i­ly  b ­heard ­about this, they went to take
charge of him, for they said, “He is out of
his mind.”
22 And the teach­ers of the law who came
down from Je­ru­sa­lem said, “He is pos­
sessed by Be­el­ze­bul! By the ­prince of de­
mons he is driv­ing out de­mons.”
23 So ­Jesus ­called them over to him and
be­gan to ­speak to them in par­a­bles: “How
can Sa­tan d
­ rive out Sa­tan? 24 If a king­dom
is di­vid­ed ­against it­self, that king­dom can­
­ ouse is di­vid­ed ­against
not ­stand. 25 If a h
it­self, that ­house can­not ­stand. 26 And if Sa­
tan op­pos­es him­self and is di­vid­ed, he can­
not ­stand; his end has come. 27 In fact, no
one can en­ter a s ­ trong m
­ an’s h
­ ouse with­
out ­first ty­ing him up. Then he can plun­
der the s ­ trong m
­ an’s h
­ ouse. 28 Tru­ly I tell
you, peo­ple can be for­giv­en all ­their sins
and e
­ very slan­der they ut­ter, 29 but who­ev­
er blas­phemes ­against the Holy Spir­it will
nev­er be for­giv­en; they are g
­ uilty of an
eter­nal sin.”
30 He said this be­cause they were say­ing,
“He has an im­pure spir­it.”
31 Then ­Jesus’ moth­er and broth­ers ar­
rived. Stand­ing out­side, they sent some­one
in to call him. 32  A ­crowd was sit­ting ­around
a  14  Some manuscripts twelve — ​designating
them apostles — ​     b  21 Or his associates