Mark 3:27

²⁷In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house.e

Mark 3 intensifies the conflict surrounding Jesus’ ministry. He heals on the Sabbath, drawing the first explicit plot to kill him. Crowds press in, and Jesus appoints twelve apostles, a symbolic reconstitution of Israel. His family fears he is out of his mind, and scribes accuse him