And he said to them, “Is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your[a] hand.” And he stretched it[b] out, and his hand was restored. And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians and began to conspire[c] against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:5 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Mark 3:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Mark 3:6 Literally “began to give counsel”; the imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive (“began to”)

Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.

He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians(A) how they might kill Jesus.(B)

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