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Mark 3
Summary
Mark 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It relates a conflict over healing on the Sabbath, the commissioning of the Twelve Apostles, a conflict with the Jerusalem scribes and a meeting of Jesus with his own family.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 35 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Codex Vaticanus (325-350; complete)
Codex Sinaiticus (330-360; complete)
Codex Bezae (~400; complete)
Codex Alexandrinus (400-440; complete)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~450; complete).
Miracles of Jesus
Continuing the theme of the Sabbath from the previous chapter, Mark 3 opens with Jesus healing a man with a shriveled or withered hand on the Sabbath in the Synagogue. The word ἐξηραμμένην (exērammenēn) is translated as "paralyzed" in the International Standard Version. Mark uses the adverb πάλιν (palin, again), indicating this is the synagogue in Capernaum, the same as the one in , although the New American Standard Bible reads "a synagogue".
"Some people", probably the Pharisees, who were mentioned in Mark 2:24, 27, were there specifically waiting to see if Jesus would heal someone on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him of breaking it. Rabbis of the time would allow healing on the Sabbath only if the person was in great danger, a situation his hand would not qualify for. The Jewish Encyclopedia article on Jesus notes: "... stricter rabbis allowed only the saving of life to excuse the slightest curtailment of the Sabbath rest (Shab. xxii. 6)". In Luke's parallel account, it is "the scribes and Pharisees" who "watch Him closely".
Jesus asks the people "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" () They do not answer and he angrily looks around at the crowd and is "distressed at their stubborn hearts" (). Methodist founder John Wesley suggested that his adversaries were already seeking occasion to kill him.
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