Marco 3:3

3 Ed egli disse all’uomo che avea la mano secca: Levati là nel mezzo.

Marco 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 3:3

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, ( Matthew 12:10 Matthew 12:11 ) , and knowing "their thoughts", as Luke says, ( Luke 6:8 ) , their reasonings and designs; and as the Persic version here, from thence "understanding their conspiracy", turns himself to the lame man, and bids him

stand forth:
or, as in Luke, "rise up and stand forth in the midst", ( Luke 6:8 ) . He bid him rise up from his seat, and stand forth in the midst of the synagogue: this he said, partly to raise the attention of the people to the following miracle; and partly to move commiseration upon the sight of the object; and to aggravate the hard heartedness of the Pharisees; as also, that it might be manifest to all, that the man's hand was really withered; and that there was no fraud in the following cure.

Marco 3:3 In-Context

1 POI egli entrò di nuovo nella sinagoga, e quivi era un uomo che avea la mano secca.

2 Ed essi l’osservavano se lo sanerebbe in giorno di sabato, per accusarlo.

3 Ed egli disse all’uomo che avea la mano secca: Levati là nel mezzo.

4 Poi disse loro: È egli lecito di far bene o male; di salvare una persona, o di ucciderla, in giorno di sabato? Ma essi tacevano.

5 Allora, avendoli guardati attorno con indegnazione, contristato per l’induramento del cuor loro, disse a quell’uomo: Distendi la tua mano. Ed egli la distese. E la sua mano fu restituita sana come l’altra.