Mark 3:5

Context
3:5 After looking around¹ 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 8:23

Context
8:23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then⁴ he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes⁵ and asked, “Do you see anything?”

Mark 9:43

Context
9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have⁶ two hands and go into hell,⁷ to the unquenchable fire.

[3:5] ¹tn 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] ²tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.

[3:5] ³sn 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.

[8:23] ⁴tn Grk “village, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[8:23] ⁵tn Grk “on him,” but the word πάλιν in v. 25 implies that Jesus touched the man’s eyes at this point.

[9:43] ⁷tn Grk “than having.”

[9:43] ⁸sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36). This Greek term also occurs in vv. 45, 47.