Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man… 1. We must not be too hasty and sudden in giving way to our anger, without duly considering that there is just cause for it. 2. We must distinguish between the offence done against God and any personal indignity we may have suffered. When these two are combined, as often happens, our anger must be directed chiefly against the sin; the offence against ourselves we must forgive. 3. Our anger must be properly proportioned, according to the degree of sin. 4. We must be impartial, being displeased at sin wherever and in whomsoever we find it; as well at our own sins, as at the sins of others; as well at the faults of friends as of enemies. 5. Our anger must be joined with grief for the person against whose sin we are offended. 6. Our anger against the sin must be joined with love to the sinner, making us willing and desirous to do him any good we can. (G. Petter.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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