Markus 3:1

Lutherbibel

Und er ging abermals in die Schule. Und es war da ein Mensch, der hatte eine verdorrte Hand.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und er ging wiederum in die Synagoge. Und es war dort ein Mensch, der hatte eine verdorrte Hand.

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

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.