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Text -- Mark 3:1-18 (NET)
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Healing a Withered Hand
3:1 Then Jesus entered the synagogue again , and a man was there who had a withered hand .
3:2 They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath , so that they could accuse him .
3:3 So he said to the man who had the withered hand , “Stand up among all these people.”
3:4 Then he said to them , “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath , or evil , to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent .
3:5 After looking around at them in anger , grieved by the hardness of their hearts , he said to the man , “Stretch out your hand .” He stretched it out , and his hand was restored .
3:6 So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting plotting with the Herodians , as to how they could assassinate him .
Crowds by the Sea
3:7 Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea , and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea ,
3:8 Jerusalem , Idumea , beyond the Jordan River , and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done .
3:9 Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him .
3:10 For he had healed many , so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.
3:11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him , they fell down before him and cried out , “You are the Son of God .”
3:12 But he sternly ordered them not to make him known .
Appointing the Twelve Apostles
3:13 Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted , and they came to him .
3:14 He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles ), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach
3:15 and to have authority to cast out demons .
3:16 He appointed twelve: To Simon he gave the name Peter ;
3:17 to James and his brother John , the sons of Zebedee , he gave the name Boanerges (that is , “sons of thunder ”);
3:18 and Andrew , Philip , Bartholomew , Matthew , Thomas , James the son of Alphaeus , Thaddaeus , Simon the Zealot ,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Simon |
Jesus, The Christ |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C1 |
Peter |
Miracles |
Capernaum |
PHARISEES |
PETER, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF |
Apostles |
Call |
James |
Alphaeus |
MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 1 |
Thomas |
Boanerges |
Bartholomew |
APOSTLE |
Thaddaeus |
Andrew |
Herodians |
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NET Notes -> Mar 3:1; Mar 3:1; Mar 3:1; Mar 3:1; Mar 3:2; Mar 3:2; Mar 3:2; Mar 3:3; Mar 3:3; Mar 3:4; Mar 3:5; Mar 3:5; Mar 3:5; Mar 3:6; Mar 3:6; Mar 3:6; Mar 3:6; Mar 3:6; Mar 3:7; Mar 3:7; Mar 3:8; Mar 3:8; Mar 3:8; Mar 3:8; Mar 3:8; Mar 3:9; Mar 3:11; Mar 3:12; Mar 3:12; Mar 3:13; Mar 3:13; Mar 3:13; Mar 3:14; Mar 3:14; Mar 3:14; Mar 3:16; Mar 3:16; Mar 3:17; Mar 3:18; Mar 3:18; Mar 3:18; Mar 3:18
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NET Notes: Mar 3:2 The background for this is the view that only if life was endangered should one attempt to heal on the Sabbath (see the Mishnah, m. Shabbat 6.3; 12.1;...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:3 Most likely synagogues were arranged with benches along the walls and open space in the center for seating on the floor.
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NET Notes: Mar 3:4 Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the n...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:5 The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were w...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:7 The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
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NET Notes: Mar 3:9 Grk “they”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Mar 3:12 Jesus did not permit the demons to make him known because the time for such disclosure was not yet at hand, and such a revelation would have certainly...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:13 The expression up the mountain here may be idiomatic or generic, much like the English “he went to the hospital” (cf. 15:29), or even inte...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:14 The phrase “whom he named apostles” is lacking in the majority of mss (A C2 [D] L Ë1 33 Ï latt sy). Several primary Alexandrian ...
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NET Notes: Mar 3:16 In the various lists of the twelve, Simon (that is, Peter) is always mentioned first (see also Matt 10:1-4; Luke 6:13-16; Acts 1:13) and the first fou...
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