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THE MESSAGE
Mark 3:1
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Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a shriveled hand.
And he entred againe into the Synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand:
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
He entered a synagogue again; and a man was there whose hand was withered.
Another time when Jesus went into a synagogue, a man with a crippled hand was there.
Again Jesus went into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.
He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.
And He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand.
Once again Jesus entered the synagogue, and a man with a withered hand was there.
The next time that Jesus went into the meeting place, a man with a crippled hand was there.
Yeshua went again into a synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there a man having his hand dried up.
Another time Jesus went into the synagogue. In the synagogue there was a man with a crippled hand.
And he entred againe into ye Synagogue, & there was a man which had a withered had.
JESUS entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man whose hand was withered.
Then Jesus went back to the synagogue, where there was a man who had a paralyzed hand.
And he entered into the synagogue again, and a man who had a withered hand was there.
And again He entered into the synagogue. And there was a man who had a withering of the hand.
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
And he went again into the Synagogue; and there was a man there whose hand was dead.
He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
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And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had his hand withered.
He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there who had a withered hand.
At another time, when He went to the synagogue, there was a man there with one arm shrivelled up.
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Jesus went into the Jewish place of worship again. A man was there with a dried-up hand.
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Another time he entred into the synagogue, when a man was there who had a withered hand.
Another time, Jesus walked into a church and there was a fellow there with a crippled wing.
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
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Pseudo-Servants of God Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ. It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are. It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything. I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me? It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride. Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it. With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think. It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do. I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us. And I'm not changing my position on this. I'd die before taking your money. I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special. They're a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Let me come back to where I started—and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little. I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ. Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days. Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along. You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down—even slap your face! I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff. Since you admire the egomaniacs of the pulpit so much (remember, this is your old friend, the fool, talking), let me try my hand at it. Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match. Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.
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.
