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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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- Luke 6:10He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
- Eph 4:18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
- 1 Kgs 13:6The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
- Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Matt 13:14–15In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
- Rom 11:7–10What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
- Matt 12:13Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
- Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
- Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
- Luke 19:40–44He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
- Isa 42:18–20“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
- John 9:7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
- Luke 13:15Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
- Gen 6:6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Isa 44:18–20They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
- Ps 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
- Judg 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Isa 63:9–10In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Luke 17:14When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.
- John 5:8–9Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
- Heb 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- 2 Cor 3:14But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
- Neh 13:8It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
- Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
- Rev 6:16They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Heb 3:10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
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