the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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马å¯ç¦é³ 3:1
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耶 稣 又 进 了 会 堂 , 在 那 里 有 一 个 人 枯 乾 了 一 只 手 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he entered: Mark 1:21, Matthew 12:9-14, Luke 6:6-11
withered: 1 Kings 13:4, John 5:3
Reciprocal: John 9:14 - General
Cross-References
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
If one falls down, the other can help him up. But it is bad for the person who is alone and falls, because no one is there to help.
At that time the Lord will punish Leviathan, the gliding snake. He will punish Leviathan, the coiled snake, with his great and hard and powerful sword. He will kill the monster in the sea.
The devil came to Jesus to tempt him, saying, "If you are the Son of God, tell these rocks to become bread."
The devil said, "If you are the Son of God, jump down, because it is written in the Scriptures: ‘He has put his angels in charge of you. They will catch you in their hands so that you will not hit your foot on a rock.'" Psalm 91:11–12
The devil said, "If you will bow down and worship me, I will give you all these things."
"Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves.
This does not surprise us. Even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light.
In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives in an understanding way, since they are weaker than you. But show them respect, because God gives them the same blessing he gives you—the grace that gives true life. Do this so that nothing will stop your prayers.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he entered again into the synagogue,.... Perhaps in Capernaum, where he had before cast out the unclean spirit; but not on the same day, nor on that day he had had the debate with the Pharisees, about his disciples plucking the ears of corn on the sabbath day; but on another sabbath, perhaps the next; see Luke 6:6.
And there was a man there which had a withered hand; who came there either for a cure, knowing Christ to be in the synagogue, or for the sake of worship; Luke 6:6- :.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this explained in Matthew 12:9-13.
Mark 3:4
Or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? - It seems to have been a maxim with the Jews that not to do good when we have an opportunity is to do evil; not to save life is to kill or to be guilty of murder. If a man has an opportunity of saving a man’s life when he is in danger, and does not do it, he is evidently guilty of his death. On this principle our Saviour puts this question to the Jews - whether it was better for him, having the power to heal this man, to do it, or to suffer him to remain in this suffering condition; and he illustrates it by an example, showing that in a manner of much less importance - that respecting their cattle - they would do on the Sabbath just as “he” would if he should heal this man. The same remark may apply to all opportunities of doing good. “The ability to do good imposes an obligation to do it” (Cotton Mather) He that has the means of feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked, and instructing the ignorant, and sending the gospel to the destitute, and that does it not, is guilty, for he is practically doing evil; he is suffering evils to exist which he might remove. So the wicked will be condemned in the day of judgment because “they did it not,” Matthew 25:45. If this is true, what an obligation rests upon the rich to do good!
Mark 3:5
With anger - With a severe and stern countenance; with indignation at their hypocrisy and hardness of heart. This was not, however, a spiteful or revengeful passion; it was caused by excessive “grief” at their state: “being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.” It was not hatred of the “men” whose hearts were so hard; it was hatred of the sin which they exhibited, joined with the extreme grief that neither his teaching nor the law of God, nor any means which could be used, overcame their confirmed wickedness. Such anger is not unlawful, Ephesians 4:26. However, in this instance, our Lord has taught us that anger is never lawful except when it is tempered with grief or compassion for those who have offended.
Hardness of their hearts - The heart, figuratively the seat of feeling or affection, is said to be tender when it is easily affected by the sufferings of others - by our own sin and danger - by the love and commands of God; when we are easily made to feel on the great subjects pertaining to our interest, Ezekiel 11:19-20. It is hard when nothing moves it; when a man is alike insensible to the sufferings of others, to the dangers of his own condition, and to the commands, the love, and the threatenings of God. It is most tender in youth, or when we have committed fewest crimes. It is made hard by indulgence in sin, by long resisting the offers of salvation, or by opposing any great and affecting appeals which God may make to us by his Spirit or providence, by affliction, or by a revival of religion. Hence, it is that the most favorable period for securing an interest in Christ, or for becoming a Christian, is in youth the first, the tenderest, and the best days of life. Nay, in the days of childhood, in the Sabbath-school, God may be found, and the soul prepared to die.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III.
The man with the withered hand healed, 1-5.
The Pharisees plot our Lord's destruction, 6.
Christ withdraws, and is followed by a great multitude, 7-9.
He heals many, and goes to a mountain to pray, 10-13.
He ordains twelve disciples, and, gives them power to preach
and work miracles, 14, 15.
Their names, 16-19.
The multitudes throng him, and the scribes attribute his
miracles to Beelzebub, 20-22.
He vindicates himself by a parable, 23-27.
Of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, 28-30.
His mother and brethren send for him, 31, 32.
And he takes occasion from this to show, that they who do the
will of God are to him as his brother, sister, and mother,
33-35.
NOTES ON CHAP. III.
Verse Mark 3:1. A man there which had a withered hand. — See this explained on Matthew 12:10, c., and on Luke 6:6, Luke 6:10.