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3 And He said to the man who had the withered hand,1 “Step forward.”  
4 Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent.
5 And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the ahardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored1 as whole as the other.  
6 aThen the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with bthe Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.  

A Great Multitude Follows Jesus

7 But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, aand from Judea  
8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how amany things He was doing, came to Him.  
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Mark 3:5

When he had looked round on them with anger (peribleyamenov autouv met orghv). Mark has a good deal to say about the looks of Jesus with this word (Mark 3:5, Mark 3:34; Mark 5:37; Mark 9:8; Mark 10:23; Mark 11:11) as here. So Luke only once, Luke 6:10. The eyes of Jesus swept the room all round and each rabbinical hypocrite felt the cut of that condemnatory glance. This indignant anger was not inconsistent with the love and pity of Jesus. Murder was in their hearts and Jesus knew it. Anger against wrong as wrong is a sign of moral health (Gould).

Being grieved at the hardness of their hearts (sunlupoumenov epi th pwrwsei thv kardiav autwn). Mark alone gives this point. The anger was tempered by grief (Swete). Jesus is the Man of Sorrows and this present participle brings out the continuous state of grief whereas the momentary angry look is expressed by the aorist participle above. Their own heart or attitude was in a state of moral ossification (pwrwsiv) like hardened hands or feet. Pwrov was used of a kind of marble and then of the callus on fractured bones. "They were hardened by previous conceptions against this new truth" (Gould). See also on Matthew 12:9-14.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 3:5:

Mark 3:5
Mark 5:32
Mark 6:52
Mark 10:23
Luke 6:6
Luke 6:10
Romans 11:7
Romans 11:25
Ephesians 4:18

 

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