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Mt 12:9; Lu 6:6.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-2.htm">Mark 3:2</a></div><div class="verse">And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.</div><div class="comm">3:2 And they - The scribes and Pharisees, watched him, that they might accuse him - Pride, anger, and shame, after being so often put to silence, began now to ripen into malice.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-3.htm">Mark 3:3</a></div><div class="verse">And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-4.htm">Mark 3:4</a></div><div class="verse">And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.</div><div class="comm">3:4 Is it lawful to save life or to kill? - Which he knew they were seeking occasion to do. But they held their peace - Being confounded, though not convinced.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-5.htm">Mark 3:5</a></div><div class="verse">And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched <i>it</i> out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.</div><div class="comm">3:5 Looking round upon them with anger, being grieved - Angry at the sin, grieved at the sinner; the true standard of Christian anger. But who can separate anger at sin from anger at the sinner? None but a true believer in Christ.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-6.htm">Mark 3:6</a></div><div class="verse">And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.</div><div class="comm">3:6 The Pharisees going out - Probably leaving the scribes to watch him still: took counsel with the Herodians - as bitter as they usually were against each other.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-7.htm">Mark 3:7</a></div><div class="verse">But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-8.htm">Mark 3:8</a></div><div class="verse">And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and <i>from</i> beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.</div><div class="comm">3:8 From Idumea - The natives of which had now professed the Jewish religion above a hundred and fifty years. They about Tyre and Sidon - The Israelites who lived in those coasts.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-9.htm">Mark 3:9</a></div><div class="verse">And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-10.htm">Mark 3:10</a></div><div class="verse">For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.</div><div class="comm">3:10 Plagues or scourges (so the Greek word properly means) seem to be those very painful or afflictive disorders which were frequently sent, or at least permitted of God, as a scourge or punishment of sin.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-11.htm">Mark 3:11</a></div><div class="verse">And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-12.htm">Mark 3:12</a></div><div class="verse">And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.</div><div class="comm">3:12 He charged them not to make him known - It was not the time: nor were they fit preachers.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-13.htm">Mark 3:13</a></div><div class="verse">And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth <i>unto him</i> whom he would: and they came unto him.</div><div class="comm">3:13 He calleth whom he would - With regard to the eternal states of men, God always acts as just and merciful. But with regard to numberless other things, he seems to us to act as a mere sovereign. Lu 6:12</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-14.htm">Mark 3:14</a></div><div class="verse">And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,</div><div class="comm">3:14 Mt 10:2; Lu 6:13; Ac 1:13. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-15.htm">Mark 3:15</a></div><div class="verse">And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-16.htm">Mark 3:16</a></div><div class="verse">And Simon he surnamed Peter;</div><div class="comm">3:16 He surnamed them sons of thunder - Both with respect to the warmth and impetuosity of their spirit, their fervent manner of preaching, and the power of their word.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-17.htm">Mark 3:17</a></div><div class="verse">And James the <i>son</i> of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-18.htm">Mark 3:18</a></div><div class="verse">And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the <i>son</i> of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-19.htm">Mark 3:19</a></div><div class="verse">And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-20.htm">Mark 3:20</a></div><div class="verse">And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.</div><div class="comm">3:20 To eat bread - That is, to take any subsistence.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-21.htm">Mark 3:21</a></div><div class="verse">And when his friends heard <i>of it</i>, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.</div><div class="comm">3:21 His relations - His mother and his brethren, Mr 3:31. But it was some time before they could come near him.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-22.htm">Mark 3:22</a></div><div class="verse">And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.</div><div class="comm">3:22 The scribes and Pharisees, Matt 12:22; who had come down from Jerusalem - Purposely on the devil's errand. And not without success. For the common people now began to drink in the poison, from these learned, good, honourable men! He hath Beelzebub - at command, is in league with him: And by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils - How easily may a man of learning elude the strongest proof of a work of God! How readily can he account for every incident without ever taking God into the question. Mt 12:24; Lu 11:15.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-23.htm">Mark 3:23</a></div><div class="verse">And he called them <i>unto him</i>, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-24.htm">Mark 3:24</a></div><div class="verse">And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-25.htm">Mark 3:25</a></div><div class="verse">And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-26.htm">Mark 3:26</a></div><div class="verse">And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-27.htm">Mark 3:27</a></div><div class="verse">No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-28.htm">Mark 3:28</a></div><div class="verse">Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:</div><div class="comm">3:28 Mt 12:31; Lu 12:10.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-29.htm">Mark 3:29</a></div><div class="verse">But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-30.htm">Mark 3:30</a></div><div class="verse">Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.</div><div class="comm">3:30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit - Is it not astonishing, that men who have ever read these words, should doubt, what is the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? Can any words declare more plainly, that it is the ascribing those miracles to the power of the devil which Christ wrought by the power of the Holy Ghost?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-31.htm">Mark 3:31</a></div><div class="verse">There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.</div><div class="comm">3:31 Then come his brethren and his mother - Having at length made their way through the crowd, so as to come to the door. His brethren are here named first, as being first and most earnest in the design of taking him: for neither did these of his brethren believe on him. They sent to him, calling him - They sent one into the house, who called him aloud, by name. Mt 12:46; Lu 8:19.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-32.htm">Mark 3:32</a></div><div class="verse">And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-33.htm">Mark 3:33</a></div><div class="verse">And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34</a></div><div class="verse">And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!</div><div class="comm">3:34 Looking round on them who sat about him - With the utmost sweetness; He said, Behold my mother and my brethren - In this preference of his true disciples even to the Virgin Mary, considered merely as his mother after the flesh, he not only shows his high and tender affection for them, but seems designedly to guard against those excessive and idolatrous honours, which he foresaw would in after ages be paid to her.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/mark/3-35.htm">Mark 3:35</a></div><div class="verse">For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.</div><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible by John Wesley [1754-65]<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../mark/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/mark/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="320" scrolling="no" src="//biblemenus.com/adframe728bhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>