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Mark 3:1

Note:

I. Christ's detection of human incompleteness. He instantly discovered that there was a man in the synagogue with a withered hand.

II. Jesus Christ's power over partial disease. The man had only a withered hand. In some cases Christ used to heal thoroughly diseased men; in this case the disease was local; yet in both instances His power was the same.

III. Christ's inability to heal the obstinacy of His enemies.

IV. Christ's moral indignation overcoming all outward obstacles. He was indignant with the men who valued the sacredness of a day above the sacredness of a human life.

Parker, City Temple,1871, p. 68.

References: Mark 3:1. H. M. Luckock, Footprints of the Son of Man,p. 55; Homilist,new series, vol. iii., p. 1; T. L. Cuyler, Christian World Pulpit,vol. x., p. 32; Homiletic Quarterly,vol. vi., p. 265; vol. xii., p. 37. Mark 3:2. W. F. Hook, Sermons on the Miracles,vol. i., p. 135; W. S. Houghton, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxx., p. 340.