Mark 3:5
Context3:5 After looking around 1 at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, 2 he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 3
Mark 3:34
Context3:34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here 4 are my mother and my brothers!
[3:5] 1 tn The aorist participle περιβλεψάμενος (peribleyameno") has been translated as antecedent (prior) to the action of the main verb. It could also be translated as contemporaneous (“Looking around…he said”).
[3:5] 2 tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.
[3:5] 3 sn 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 wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.