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Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
Mark 3:5 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
  • NASB After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
  • NLT He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!

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Quick answer

Grieved and angered by their hard hearts, Jesus heals the man's hand completely. It matters because it shows both Christ's righteous emotion and his power to fully restore.

Overview

Mark uniquely notes Jesus' anger mixed with grief, a holy response to human stubbornness against God's mercy. The instantaneous, complete restoration of the hand demonstrates his divine authority over the Sabbath and over brokenness. The scene reveals a Savior who feels deeply, judges sin rightly, and heals what is ruined, picturing the wholeness he brings to all who come to him.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 27

  • Luke 6:10And after looking around at all of them, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and it was restored.
  • Eph 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • 1 Kgs 13:6Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  • Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
  • Matt 13:14–15In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
  • Rom 11:7–10What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
  • Matt 12:13Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.
  • Eph 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
  • Isa 6:9–10And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
  • Luke 19:40–44“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
  • Isa 42:18–20Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
  • John 9:7Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
  • Luke 13:15“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
  • Gen 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
  • Isa 44:18–20They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
  • Ps 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
  • Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
  • Isa 63:9–10In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
  • Luke 17:14When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.
  • John 5:8–9Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
  • Heb 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • 2 Cor 3:14But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
  • Neh 13:8And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
  • Eph 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
  • Rev 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
  • Heb 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

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Christ at the center

Mark drives urgently to the cross, showing Jesus the Son of God as the suffering Servant who 'came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'

How Mark 3:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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