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MARK 3:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.”
He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored — the double emotional description is unique in Mark: anger (orgē) and distress (syllypeō, deep grief). The anger is righteous anger at the hardness of heart; the distress is grief for the condition that the hardness of heart produces in people. Jesus feels both simultaneously — the combination of indignation and sorrow that characterizes the prophetic response to human resistance. The healing is immediate and complete. The man stretched out his hand in obedience to the command, and the restoration happened as the act of obedience was performed.

Church Fathers on Mark 3:5

After confounding the Jews, who had blamed His disciples, for pulling the ears of corn on the sabbath day, by the example of David, the Lord now further bringing them to the truth, works a miracle on the sabbath; shewing that, if it is a pious deed to work miracles on the sabbath for the health of men, it is not wrong to do on the sabbath thing necessary for the body.

Theophylact · 11th century

For, since He had defended the breaking of the sabbath, which they objected to His disciples, by an approved example, now they wish, by watching Him, to calumniate Himself, that they might accuse Him of a transgression, if He cured on the sabbath, of cruelty or of folly, if He refused.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 1, 14

But some one may wonder how Matthew could have said, that they themselves asked the Lord, if it was lawful to heal on the sabbath-day; when Mark rather relates that they were asked by our Lord, 'Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath-day, or to do evil?'

Augustine · 4th century · de Con. Evan., ii, 35
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