Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
Mark 3 - Introduction
CHAPTER 3.
THE SABBATH QUESTION CONTINUED. THE DISCIPLE-CIRCLE.
Another Sabbatic conflict completes the group of incidents (five in all) designed to illustrate the opposition of the scribes and Pharisees to Jesus. Then at Mark 5:7 begins a new section of the history, extending to Mark 6:13, in which the disciples of Jesus are, speaking broadly, the centre of interest. First the people, then their religious heads, then the nucleus of the new society.