Thursday, January 19, 2023 | Mark 3:7-12

Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.

A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.

Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from

Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the

neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.

He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so

that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those

who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.

And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and

shout, “You are the Son of God.” He warned them sternly not to make him

known.