Then he looked round about on them [a]angrily, mourning also for the [b]hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored, as whole as the other.

[c]And the Pharisees departed, and straightway gathered a council with the [d]Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.

But Jesus avoided with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, and from Judea,

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:5 Men, when they have wrong done unto them, are angry, but not without vice, but Christ is angry without vice, neither is he sorry so much for the injury that is done to his own person, as for their wickedness: and therefore he had pity upon them, and for that cause is he said to have mourned.
  2. Mark 3:5 As though their heart had been so closed up, and grown together, that wholesome doctrine could prevail no more with them.
  3. Mark 3:6 The more the truth is kept under, the more it cometh out.
  4. Mark 3:6 See also Matt. 22:16.

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