{"id":8875,"date":"2024-07-16T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:35:44","slug":"mark-31-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8875","title":{"rendered":"Mark 3:1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 <\/span>And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3\u00a0<\/sup>And He said to the man who had the withered hand,\u00a0\u201cStep forward.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>Then He said to them, \u201cIs it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?\u201d<\/span> But they kept silent.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5\u00a0<\/sup>And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d<\/span> And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Also found in Matthew 12:9-14<\/span><\/a> and Luke 6:6-11.<\/h3>\n

Interesting to note that the Lord didn’t touch the man or even say anything to heal him. He simply told the man to stretch out his hand, and he was healed. The Pharisees were angry that Jesus “worked” on the Sabbath, but He did nothing that could legally be defined as work \u2014 there is noting in the Law against healing on the Sabbath. It is obvious that their minds were already made up.<\/h3>\n

withered (v.1) — tense indicates a past action having continuing results. The man wasn’t born with a withered hand — it happened due to injury or disease. Luke (a doctor who would notice things like this, reported that it was the man’s right hand.<\/h3>\n

watched him (v.2) — tense indicates a continuous action. They were determined to find fault.<\/h3>\n

The prefixed preposition (to “watched”) para which means “beside” in its local sense, speaks of the Pharisees as side-line observers. They would have nothing to do with our Lord, and kept themselves away from any fellowship with Him lest they be understood to be in sympathy with Him. They maintained an attitude of aloofness. … They were watching Him carefully and closely as one who dogs another’s steps. … They played the spy. \u2014 Wuest, pages 62-63.<\/span><\/h3>\n

accuse (v.2) = to accuse formally and before a tribunal, to bring a charge publicly.<\/h3>\n

Step forward (v.3) = lit. “step into the midst of all the people so they all can see you” Our Lord answered the spying attitude of the Pharisees by this daring act. He brought things out into the open at once, and threw out a challenge to them.” \u2014 Wuest, page 63.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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It was a question of performing an act of healing. Christ assumes that the ethically good coincides with the humane<\/em> (Sabbath made for man). Therein essentially lay the difference between Him and the Pharisees, in whose theory and practice, religious duty and benevolence, the divine and the human, were divorced. To do good or to do evil, these the only alternatives; to omit to do good in your power is evil; not to save life, when you can, is to destroy it. \u2014 Wuest, page 63.<\/span><\/h3>\n

They kept silent (v.4) — Tense is “they continued being silent.” It must have been an awkward pause because they had no answer to the Lord’s question.<\/h3>\n

He had looked around at them (v.5) — A swift, sweeping glance. With the addition of the words “with anger,” it’s easy to get an idea of what it must have looked like when the Lord looked at the Pharisees.<\/h3>\n

There are three words speaking of anger (v.5), thumos<\/em>, indicating a sudden outburst of anger that cools off quickly, orge<\/em>, defining and abiding and settled habit of mind, not operating at all times, but exhibiting itself in the same way when the occasion demands it, and parogismos<\/em> which speaks of anger in the sense of exasperation. The latter is forbidden in Scripture, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath” (Ephesians 4:26<\/span><\/a>); the second orge<\/em> is permitted, but the qualification is that no sinful element be included in it. Mark uses the word orge<\/em>. \u2014 Wuest, page 64.<\/span><\/h3>\n

grieved (v.5) — The Lord’s anger was due to grief. Tense indicates the grief was a continuous state.<\/h3>\n

hardness (v.5) = covered with a thick skin, hardened by being covered with a callus. Better translated “hardening” to indicate a process. In this case, “obtuseness of mental discernment, dulled perception.”<\/h3>\n

hearts (v.5) = lit. “heart” as if they had one hard heart among all of them<\/h3>\n

restored (v.5) = restored to its former state.<\/h3>\n

Herodians (v.6) — The Herodians were a Jewish party in the time of our Lord who were evidently partisans of the Herod family. The Herods were not of proper Jewish descent, and they had supplanted a royal family not merely Jewish, but of priestly blood and rank. They also supported their authority by trying to please their Roman patrons. In doing this, they came into direct antagonism with the Pharisees. But in the case of our Lord, these two warring parties united. The Pharisees really aimed at the life of our Lord, and thus it was helpful to gain the assistance of people having influence at court. \u2014 Wuest, page 66.<\/span><\/h3>\n

As I studied these verses, I was struck by the fact that the Pharisees stood there and watched the Lord perform actual, literal, discernible, verifiable miracles of healing \u2014 something that they had never seen before. And yet they were angry and hated Him before He even began. The evidence of who He was could not have been clearer, but they refused to accept it. There seems to be an application regarding the pointlessness of arguing with those who have made up their minds. If even miracles can’t persuade them, arguing won’t.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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