  Title: The World English Bible (WEB): Mark Edition: 10 Language: English From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. Book 41 Mark 001:001 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 001:002 As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.{Malachi 3:1} 001:003 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"{Isaiah 40:3} 001:004 John came baptizing{or, immersing} in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. 001:005 All 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. 001:006 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. 001:007 He 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. 001:008 I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in" could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit." 001:009 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 001:010 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 001:011 A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 001:012 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. 001:013 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. 001:014 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God, 001:015 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." 001:016 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 001:017 Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men." 001:018 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. 001:019 Going 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. 001:020 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. 001:021 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 001:022 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 001:023 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 001:024 saying, "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!" 001:025 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!" 001:026 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 001:027 They 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!" 001:028 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. 001:029 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 001:030 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 001:031 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them. 001:032 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. 001:033 All the city was gathered together at the door. 001:034 He 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. 001:035 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. 001:036 Simon and those who were with him followed after him; 001:037 and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you." 001:038 He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." 001:039 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. 001:040 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." 001:041 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." 001:042 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 001:043 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out, 001:044 and 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." 001:045 But 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. 002:001 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 002:002 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 002:003 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 002:004 When 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. 002:005 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." 002:006 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 002:007 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 002:008 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 002:009 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' 002:010 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— 002:011 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." 002:012 He 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!" 002:013 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 002:014 As 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. 002:015 It 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. 002:016 The 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?" 002:017 When 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." 002:018 John'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?" 002:019 Jesus 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. 002:020 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. 002:021 No 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. 002:022 No 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." 002:023 It 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. 002:024 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?" 002:025 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? 002:026 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" 002:027 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 002:028 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." 003:001 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 003:002 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 003:003 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 003:004 He 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. 003:005 When 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. 003:006 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. 003:007 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 003:008 from 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. 003:009 He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. 003:010 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. 003:011 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 003:012 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. 003:013 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 003:014 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 003:015 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 003:016 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 003:017 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house. 003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." 003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 003:027 But 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. 003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 003:030 —because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." 003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your sisters"} are outside looking for you." 003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." 004:001 Again 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. 004:002 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 004:003 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, 004:004 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it. 004:005 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 004:006 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 004:007 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 004:008 Others 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." 004:009 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:010 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 004:011 He 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, 004:012 that '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.'"{Isaiah 6:9-10} 004:013 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 004:014 The farmer sows the word. 004:015 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 004:016 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 004:017 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 004:018 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 004:019 and 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. 004:020 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." 004:021 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand? 004:022 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. 004:023 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:024 He 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. 004:025 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him." 004:026 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 004:027 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 004:028 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 004:029 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come." 004:030 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 004:031 It'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, 004:032 yet 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." 004:033 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 004:034 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. 004:035 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." 004:036 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 004:037 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 004:038 He 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?" 004:039 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 004:040 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?" 004:041 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" 005:001 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 005:002 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 005:003 who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, 005:004 because 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. 005:005 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 005:006 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 005:007 and 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." 005:008 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 005:009 He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 005:010 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 005:011 Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. 005:012 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them." 005:013 At 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. 005:014 Those 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. 005:015 They 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. 005:016 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. 005:017 They began to beg him to depart from their region. 005:018 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 005:019 He 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." 005:020 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled. 005:021 When 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. 005:022 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 005:023 and 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." 005:024 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 005:025 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 005:026 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 005:027 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 005:028 For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." 005:029 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 005:030 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" 005:031 His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'" 005:032 He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 005:033 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 005:034 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease." 005:035 While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?" 005:036 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." 005:037 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 005:038 He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. 005:039 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep." 005:040 They ridiculed him. 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. 005:041 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up." 005:042 Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. 005:043 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. 006:001 He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. 006:002 When 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? 006:003 Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him. 006:004 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house." 006:005 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them. 006:006 He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching. 006:007 He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 006:008 He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, 006:009 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. 006:010 He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. 006:011 Whoever 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!" 006:012 They went out and preached that people should repent. 006:013 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. 006:014 King 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." 006:015 But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets." 006:016 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." 006:017 For 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. 006:018 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 006:019 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't, 006:020 for 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. 006:021 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 006:022 When 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." 006:023 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." 006:024 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer." 006:025 She 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." 006:026 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her. 006:027 Immediately 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, 006:028 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother. 006:029 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. 006:030 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. 006:031 He 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. 006:032 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. 006:033 They{TR reads "The multitudes" instead of "They"} 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. 006:034 Jesus 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. 006:035 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. 006:036 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat." 006:037 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?" 006:038 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." 006:039 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. 006:040 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. 006:041 He 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. 006:042 They all ate, and were filled. 006:043 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. 006:044 Those who ate the loaves were{TR adds "about"} five thousand men. 006:045 Immediately 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. 006:046 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray. 006:047 When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he was alone on the land. 006:048 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them, 006:049 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; 006:050 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! 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