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MARK CHAPTER 3
Mar_3:1-5 Christ appealing to reason healeth the withered hand
on the sabbath day.
Mar_3:6-12 The Pharisees conspire his death: he retires to the
seaside, and healeth many.
Mar_3:13-19 He chooseth his twelve apostles.
Mar_3:20-21 His friends look upon him as beside himself.
Mar_3:22-30 He confutes the blasphemous absurdity of the Pharisees
in ascribing his casting out of devils to the power of
Beelzebub.
Mar_3:31-35 Those who do the will of God he regardeth as his
nearest relations.
Ver. 1-5. See Poole on "Mat_12:9", and following verses to Mat_12:13. The word pwrwsei, used Mar_3:5, may be understood to signify blindness, or hardness, as it may derive from pwrov, callus, or pwrov, caecus, but the derivation of it from the former best obtains. Hardness being a quality in a thing by which it resisteth our touch, and suffers us not to make an impression upon it, that ill condition of the soul by which it becomes rebellious, and disobedient to the will of God revealed, so as it is not affected with it, nor doth it make any impression of faith or holiness upon the soul, is usually called hardness of heart. But for the argument of this history, proving acts of mercy lawful on the sabbath day, it is fully spoken to in the notes on Mat_12:9-13.