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Mark 3:3

He told the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand before us.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Capernaum;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pharisees;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Legalism;   Miracle;   Synagogue;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Persecution in the Bible;   Sabbath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Disease;   Error;   Humanity of Christ;   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Mission;   Paradox;   Sabbath ;   Spies ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Phar'isees,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forth;   Mark, the Gospel According to;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And he saith vnto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
King James Version
And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
English Standard Version
And he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come here."
New American Standard Bible
He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!"
New Century Version
Jesus said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand up here in the middle of everyone."
Amplified Bible
He said to the man whose hand was withered, "Get up and come forward!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!"
Legacy Standard Bible
And He *said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!"
Berean Standard Bible
Then Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand up among us."
Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the man to stand up where everyone could see him.
Complete Jewish Bible
He said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Come up where we can see you!"
Darby Translation
And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up [and come] into the midst.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand up here so that everyone can see you."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he saide vnto the man which had the withered hand, Arise: stand forth in the middes.
George Lamsa Translation
And he said to the man whose hand was withered, Stand up in the midst.
Good News Translation
Jesus said to the man, "Come up here to the front."
Lexham English Bible
And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come into the middle."
Literal Translation
And He said to the man who had a withering of the hand, Rise up into the middle.
American Standard Version
And he saith unto the man that had his hand withered, Stand forth.
Bible in Basic English
And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.
Hebrew Names Version
He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
International Standard Version
He said to the man with the paralyzed hand, "Come forward."into the middle">[fn]
Etheridge Translation
And he said to him, the man with the withered hand, Stand up in the midst.
Murdock Translation
And he said to the man of the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he saide vnto the man which had the wythered hande: Aryse, [and stande] in the myddes.
English Revised Version
And he saith unto the man that had his hand withered, Stand forth.
World English Bible
He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he saith to the man that had the withered hand, Stand forth.
Weymouth's New Testament
"Come forward," said He to the man with the shrivelled arm.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to the man that hadde a drie hoond, Rise in to the myddil.
Update Bible Version
And he says to the man that had his hand withered, Stand forth.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he saith to the man who had the withered hand, Stand forth.
New English Translation
So he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Stand up among all these people."
New King James Version
And He said to the man who had the withered hand, "Step forward."
New Living Translation
Jesus said to the man with the deformed hand, "Come and stand in front of everyone."
New Life Bible
Jesus said to the man with the dried-up hand, "Stand up."
New Revised Standard
And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come forward."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he saith unto the man who hath his hand withered, Arise into the midst!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.
Revised Standard Version
And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come here."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he sayde vnto ye man which had ye wyddred honde: arise and stonde in ye middes.
Young's Literal Translation
And he saith to the man having the hand withered, `Rise up in the midst.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he sayde vnto ye ma with the wythred hade: Steppe forth here.
Mace New Testament (1729)
he said then to the man who had the withered hand, rise and stand there in the midst.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said to the guy, "Come up front for a second."

Contextual Overview

1Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a shriveled hand. 2In order to accuse him, they were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3He told the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand before us.”4Then he said to them, “Is it lawful 5After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” 6Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might kill him. 7Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee, and a large crowd followed from Judea, 8Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing. 9Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him. 10Since he had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward him to touch him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he saith: Isaiah 42:4, Daniel 6:10, Luke 6:8, John 9:4, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:9, Philippians 1:14, Philippians 1:28-30, 1 Peter 4:1

Stand forth: or, Arise, stand forth in the midst

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 3:16
He said to the woman:
Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
“Do not touch my anointed onesor harm my prophets.”
Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Job 19:21
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,for God’s hand has struck me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to use a woman for sex.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand,.... After he had reasoned with them from the lesser to the greater, upon their own principles and practices, in relieving and taking out a sheep fallen into a ditch, on a sabbath day, Matthew 12:10, and knowing "their thoughts", as Luke says, Luke 6:8, their reasonings and designs; and as the Persic version here, from thence "understanding their conspiracy", turns himself to the lame man, and bids him

stand forth: or, as in Luke, "rise up and stand forth in the midst", Luke 6:8. He bid him rise up from his seat, and stand forth in the midst of the synagogue: this he said, partly to raise the attention of the people to the following miracle; and partly to move commiseration upon the sight of the object; and to aggravate the hard heartedness of the Pharisees; as also, that it might be manifest to all, that the man's hand was really withered; and that there was no fraud in the following cure.

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.


 
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