Mark 3:5

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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Jesus addresses the surrounding Pharisees and the man with the withered hand immediately after they remain silent to His Sabbath question. He then commands the man to stretch out his hand, which is restored upon obedience.

The words — περιβλεψάμενος (periblepsamenos) denotes a deliberate, sweeping look around the group, while συλλυπούμενος (sullupoumenos) describes being deeply grieved. These terms ground the narrative in Jesus’ emotional response to the observers’ hardened hearts.

The thread — The healing command parallels Luke 6:10, where Jesus similarly looks around and restores a withered hand. The theme of hardened understanding echoes Ephesians 4:18, while the physical restoration recalls the miraculous recovery in 1 Kings 13:6.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition that divine authority operates independently of religious silence or obstruction. It requires the reader to obey the command to stretch out a disabled resource, trusting restoration follows.

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The Greek words

King James Version

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 it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Cross-references

Luke 6:10 And after looking around at all of them, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and it was restored.
Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
1 Kings 13:6 Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
Romans 11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
Matthew 12:13 Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.
Matthew 13:14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
Romans 11:7 What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
Genesis 6:6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Judges 10:16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
Nehemiah 13:8 And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.