Mark 1:1-8
John the Baptist Prepared The Way For Jesus
Mark 1:9-20
Jesus Begins to Pick His Staff
Mark 1:21-34
Jesus Deals With an Unclean Spirit
Mark 1:29-34
Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law
Mark 1:35-39
Jesus Rises Early to Spend Time With His Father
Mark 1:40-45
Jesus Touched The Leper And Healed Him
Mark 2:1-12
Jesus Heals The Paralyzed Man
Mark 2:13-17
Jesus Chooses Matthew as a Disciple
Mark 2:18-22
Pharisees Think There is Merit in Fasting
Mark 2:23-28
Jesus Plucks Grain on The Sabbath
Mark 3:1-6
Jesus Healing of The Man With The Witherd Hand
Mark 3:7-12
Crowds Come to See Jesus Performing Miracles
Mark 3:13-19
Jesus Delegates Responsibilities to His Disciples
Mark 3:20-30
Jesus Faces Opposition From Both Friend And Foe
Mark 3:31-35
Jesus’ Family Come to Take Him Home
Mark 4:1-9
Jesus Teaches on Sowing Seed in 4 Types of Soil
Mark 4:10-20
Jesus Explained The Parable of The Sower
Mark 4:21-29
Jesus Teaches in Parables
Mark 4:30-41
The Parable of The Mustard Seed
Mark 5:1-10
The Demon Possessed Man at Gerasa
Mark 5:11-20
Two Thousand Hogs Drown
Mark 5:21-34
Hemorrhaging Woman Healed
Mark 5:35-43
Jesus Heals Jairus Daughter
Mark 6:1-6
Jesus Returns to His Home Town of Nazareth
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus Sends His Disciples as Missionaries
Mark 6:14-29
Mark Tells About The Death of John The Baptist
Mark 6:30-44
Feeding of The 5000
Jesus Healing of The Man With The Witherd Hand
Mark 3:1–6
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Jesus uses the healing of the man with the withered hand to point out that the Sabbath was not just a time not to work. The Pharisees watched Jesus like a cat watches a mouse hole. They stood ready to pounce on Him for every little thing that violated their legalistic beliefs. The Jews permitted healing on the Sabbath Day only if there was danger that the person might die before the next day. Unless this was the case, healing on the Sabbath, to them, was working. Jesus had broken these regulations and they were genuinely convinced that He was a bad man. This is sort of like a person who believes that true Christianity consists of going to church, reading the Bible, saying grace at meals etc., but is deaf to the needs of people. Jesus was grieved because of the hardness of their hearts and angry at the callous, cruel attitude of the Pharisees toward human suffering and need.
To refuse to do good is to choose to do evil (James 4:17). We cannot truly love God unless we hate sin. Instead of rejoicing about the man being healed the Pharisees left the synagogue to hold counsel with the Herodians as to how they might destroy Jesus. These Herodians were supporters of Roman rule. Ordinarily the Pharisees would have nothing to do with them, but now sought their cooperation in order to fulfill their purpose. It’s easy for us as sinners to develop bad attitudes. The Pharisees in this story show us three ways of developing a bad attitude:
Application
What is proper for me to do on the Lord’s Day? Jesus’ answer is clear. Whatever is good and helpful is lawful and whatever harms or hurts is wrong. Sunday should be the happiest day of the week.
Mark 3:1-6 (English Standard Version)
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