Mark 3

Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath and the Pharisees were outraged - the irony!

Jesus just declared, in the last paragraph of chapter 2, that the Sabbath is for man, not man for the Sabbath. God did not give the Sabbath as a law (an opportunity for sin), He gave it as a time of rest - for our benefit. So nobody should have had a problem with Jesus healing on the Sabbath - both things (healing and observing the Sabbath) are beneficial. But the Pharisees twisted the law to such a degree that their main take away of Jesus healing on the Sabbath was that they needed to kill Him.

Rather than stop healing because the Pharisees were upset, Jesus went out and was healing so many people that they almost crushed Him to death from trying to get near enough to touch Him.

There's a brief description of the twelve apostles that Jesus appointed for ministry. Nothing extravagant is mentioned about them, just a simple statement of the facts.

Then we read about two different groups misunderstanding Jesus, the scribes and Jesus's family.

The scribes accuse Jesus of being possessed by demons, and Jesus makes the point to them that a demon casting out demons would be working against itself, which doesn't make sense. Then Jesus tells them about the unpardonable sin. They just accused the Son of God of being possessed by demons, but Jesus is filled with the Holy Spirit and Jesus told them that it is unforgivable to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who dwells within us to teach and guide us, and the Holy Spirit cannot blashpheme Himself (same point Jesus just made about demons not being able to cast themselves out), so if you blashpheme the Holy Spirit it means that He is not in you.

Then Jesus's family comes to take Him away, but Jesus flips the script and says that His family is of Heaven not of earth.