Mark 3:5 (BSB)
Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
Commentary on Mark 3:5
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Mark 3:5: Mark 3:5. And when he had looked around upon them with indignation To convince us that this was a just and holy anger, Mark explains the reason of it to be, that he was grieved on account of the blindness of their hearts.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 3:1-12: Here, as before, we have our Lord Jesus busy at work in the synagogue first, and then by the sea side; to teach us that his presence should not be confined either to the one or to the other, but, wherever any are gathered together in his name, whether in the synagogue or any where else, there is he in the midst of them.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 3:5: And when he had looked round about on them,.... In the several parts of the synagogue; for there were many of them on every side of him; which he might do, to observe their countenances, which might justly fall, upon such a close question put to them, and what answer they would return to him: and his look upon them was with anger, with a...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 3:5: Verse 5. With anger. With a severe and stern countenance; with indignation at their hypocrisy and hardness of heart. This was not, however, a spiteful or revengeful passion; it was caused by excessive grief at their state. It was not sudden and tumultuous hatred of the men whose hearts were so hard; it was hatred of the sin which they exhibited, joined with the extreme...