Mark 3:1-5

Christianity is about salvation, it is about the birth, death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior. It is all about God’s redeeming gift to man in Jesus Christ. It is not about rules and regulations it is about the love, goodness and mercy of God and the greatest of these is love.

 It grieves God when we encase him in our doctrines and stifle the Holy Spirit in His mission to enlighten man to live and to breathe in God’s agape love.

Help me Father to live a life that shows You to the fallen world that we live in. Help me to be forever grateful for the beauty that You created because joy in you and not in the things of man strengthens me to live out my praises to You.

Christ put the meaning of the Sabbath to the test. Certainly it was more consistent with the intention of the law to restore this man’s afflicted hand, even on the Sabbath, than to destroy his hopes for the sake of keeping human tradition. The Pharisees did not respond, for they knew that they would condemn themselves.

Jesus demonstrated this righteous anger. He was grieved with sin but did not sin Himself by retaliating or losing control of His emotions.

Mark 3:1-5

3 And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. ² So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ And He said to the man who had the withered hand,  “Step forward.” ⁴ Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

³²The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him. 

Psalm 37:32

14 Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. 

Luke 14:1

²⁰ So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor. 

Luke 20:20

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.” 

Luke 13:14