And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.”
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.
Commenting on Mark 3:1-12
And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand,.... After he had reasoned with them from the lesser to the greater, upon their own principles and practices, in relieving and taking out a sheep fallen into a ditch, on a sabbath day, Mat 12:10, and knowing "their thoughts", as Luke says, Luk 6:8, their reasonings and designs; and as the Persic version here...
Verse 3. (1) "Stand forth" or, "Arise, in the midst"