Marcos 3
Charles Spurgeon · Citado em PreceptAustin
Marcos 3
Spurgeon - Jesus had healed many; these had informed other afflicted ones; these afflicted ones, anxious to obtain the boon, pressed around the Saviour in a mighty throng—every one striving to touch him that he might obtain immediate healing. At this present time, Jesus Christ has healed many. Spiritual sickness is as rife to-day as bodily sickness was in the period of our Lord’s earthly sojourn; and he is at this hour graciously occupied in healing all kinds of moral deformity and moral disease. To our knowledge some great sinners have been saved. Some who were diseased with drunkenness, with dishonesty, with lasciviousness, have believed in Christ, and have been restored to virtue and to holiness. Surely, this ought to encourage others to hope that better things are possible to them through the Saviour’s healing power.(Crowding to Touch the Saviour) Afflictions (3148)(mastix) refers literally to a whip, a whip lash or a scourge (Acts 22:24; Heb 11:36; 1 Ki. 12:11, 14; Pr 26:3) and here is clearly used figuratively to denote "painful bodily illnesses, torturing maladies." (Hiebert) It referred to a "scourge" from God meaning a disease, plague (Mk 3:10; Mk 5:29, 34; Lk 7:21; Ps. 32:10; Ps 39:10; Ps 89:32).
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Spurgeon - OUR Lord had been persecuted, and therefore he put forth many proofs of his power. When opposition attends the gospel it will be the more triumphant; the warnings of the devil prognosticate the success of the word. (ED DEAR PERSECUTED PASTOR/TEACHER, YOU MAY WANT TO READ THAT AGAIN!) When our Lord Jesus had done much, he was under a sacred necessity to do more; for every one who was healed busied himself in spreading abroad the fame of the beloved Physician, and others labouring under similar infirmities hastened at once to receive the like cure. The more we do for Christ the more we may do, and I think usually the more we must do. If we hold back from Christian labour we may think that but little is required of us; but as soon as we once enter heart and soul into the Master’s service, we shall feel as if we wanted a thousand hands and a hundred lives to overtake the growing demands upon us. I gather from the case before us in the text, that as it was with the Master so will it always be with the servants; their pace of usefulness will increase in geometrical proportion, like that of a falling stone. Healed multitudes will act as willing decoys to attract multitudes of their unhealed friends. If there be any here who have received the grace of God, it will be natural for them to induce others to listen to the word of life, that so they also may find salvation in our exalted Saviour. Thus it is that more and more the kingdom grows, until the strongholds of sin are overthrown and the gates of hell are shaken. The little cloud no bigger than a man’s hand increases till it darkens all the skies, and at last deluges the earth with blessing. Let us take care that we prove not an exception to this blessed rule, never let us by unholy silence rob our Master of one of his best weapons, and the church of her greatest joy. You who are healed should publish abroad in every place the fame of the Friend of Sinners, it is your privilege and your duty. (Crowding to Touch the Saviour) Ray Stedman on crowds pressing to touch Jesus for healing -- This underscores certain unwanted and false emphases which were awakened by this crowd. They misunderstood the purpose for which Jesus came and they began to emphasize that which was secondary in his thinking. You see this all through the ministry of Jesus, especially with regard to the healing of physical bodies. Now, our Lord did heal physically -- there is no question about it. But, from that day to this, men have seized upon that as though it preeminently were the thing he came to do. Yet, as you read the Gospels carefully, you see that Jesus is very careful to play it down, and to emphasize that he came to heal the spirits of men and not their bodies. He healed their bodies in order to demonstrate what he could do, and would do, in the realm of the spirit -- for this is the way we are made. Human nature is such that what is going on internally must become externalized. It must show up in something which affects our bodies. We well know that if we are anxious or troubled or upset it can result, if long continued, in certain physical defects. We can develop a nervous tic or twitch, or can get ulcers -- all kinds of things can go wrong because of some malady in our inner man. Again, Jesus healed the body to demonstrate what he could do with the spirit. But the crowd misunderstood that, and they pressed around him so that he might touch those who were sick, and heal them -- so much so that our Lord had to resort to a stratagem to avoid being crushed, literally, by this crowd. That is how large it was. The interesting thing is that the device he used to get away was perfectly human. Notice that Jesus didn't play with magic here. He didn't build an invisible barrier around himself so that nobody could get close, or suddenly step into a phone booth, change clothes and then leap into the sky. He is human. And, in order to escape, he asks his disciples to keep a boat handy on the shore so that he can step into it and move out onto the lake where the crowd can't follow him -- in order that he might preach instead of heal. All they wanted was healing. He wanted to preach. This is one of the things popularity does. It invariably distorts a message and emphasizes something secondary, making it paramount in the eyes of the people, so that they miss the point. Mark 3:10 All who had diseases were pressing toward Him to touch Him. I read about a woman who told her husband, "Orson, I've been watching that young married couple across the street. Every morning when the husband leaves the house he kisses his wife good-bye, and every evening when he gets home he kisses her again and hugs her affectionately. Now why can't you do that?" Orson replied, "Well, honey, I can't do that. I hardly know her." He missed the point, but a lot of us miss the point. Sometimes my wife will say to me, "Robert, you haven't hugged me or kissed me all day." I always delight to repair the damage. There was once a lonely man who passed a bookstore while walking down the street. Looking in the window, he saw a book with the title How to Hug. He rushed in to buy the book, but to his chagrin he discovered it was the seventh volume of a dictionary. It covered all the words from "How" to "Hug." Our church is a "hugging church," but not all churches are like that. I have a friend who died of Lou Gehrig's disease. He'd once belonged to my church in Nashville but moved away. He loved his new church, but the people there were more reserved in expressing their affection. "Sometimes," he told me, "I just need a hug." Jesus knew how to have and to hold, so everyone wanted to touch Him. He knew the power of an appropriate, affectionate human-to-human touch. Make a point today to hug your spouse, your kids, or even a friend who needs a spot of love. (My All in All - Robert J Morgan) Mark 3:11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!”
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Spurgeon adds "“Whatever fault the devils have, they are not at strife with each other; that fault is reserved for the servants of a better Master.” In Luke 11:19+ (MacArthur thinks this was a different occasion but others think it is a parallel to Mark and Matthew) Jesus added one other piece of logic not found in the events recorded by Mark 3 and Matthew 12 - "And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? So they will be your judges." Here Jesus is saying that He was aware of so-called Jewish exorcists.Were His accusers accusing them also? Mark 3:25 “If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. NET Mark 3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. GNT Mark 3:25 καὶ ἐὰν οἰκία ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὴν μερισθῇ, οὐ δυνήσεται ἡ οἰκία ἐκείνη σταθῆναι. NLT Mark 3:25 Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart. KJV Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ESV Mark 3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. NIV Mark 3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ASV Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. CSB Mark 3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. NKJ Mark 3:25 "And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. NRS Mark 3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. YLT Mark 3:25 and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand; NAB Mark 3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. NJB Mark 3:25 And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never last. GWN Mark 3:25 And if a household is divided against itself, that household will not last. BBE Mark 3:25 And if there is division in a house, that house will come to destruction; Ge 13:7,8 37:4 Ps 133:1 Ga 5:15 Jas 3:16 Mark 3 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries JESUS' SECOND ILLUSTRATION OF THE ABSURDITY OF THE SCRIBES' CHARGE If - The “if” clause is third class conditional (Conditional statements), which speaks of future probability.Most of the time the house would not stand, but there could be exceptions to the rule. A house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand - As with the situation with a kingdom, the same principle applies to a house. As the NLT paraphrases it "Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart." THOUGHT - Jesus' statement has practical implications. In America homes are divided because one of the spouses has broken their marriage covenant and those homes are not able to stand, with dire consequences for all the family members. The same could be said for a church when disunity begins to infiltrate the body and members are not "being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Eph 4:3+) Sadly too often such disunity results in a church split! And guess who is behind the scenes causing and cheering on the division? The devil, for even his name (diabolos - dia - through + ballo - throw) speaks of his activity to "throw between," or come between, whether it be a husband and wife or a church. He comes to destroy relationships just as he did in the perfect environment in the Garden of Eden, bringing division between Adam and Eve! His methods have not changed! Mark 3:26 “If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished! NET Mark 3:26 And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come. GNT Mark 3:26 καὶ εἰ ὁ Σατανᾶς ἀνέστη ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἐμερίσθη, οὐ δύναται στῆναι ἀλλὰ τέλος ἔχει. NLT Mark 3:26 And if Satan is divided and fights against himself, how can he stand? He would never survive. KJV Mark 3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. ESV Mark 3:26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. NIV Mark 3:26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. ASV Mark 3:26 And if Satan hath risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. CSB Mark 3:26 And if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished! NKJ Mark 3:26 "And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. NRS Mark 3:26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. YLT Mark 3:26 and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end. NAB Mark 3:26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. NJB Mark 3:26 Now if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot last either -- it is the end of him. GWN Mark 3:26 So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot last. That will be the end of him. BBE Mark 3:26 And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end. If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided - Jesus has just given two illustrations of division resulting in fall of a kingdom and a home. Think about this. If Satan were empowering Jesus' to cast out demons, then Satan is in essence casting out demons and he would be divided against Himself and would defeat his own purpose! Satan would never act contrary to his own interests. Quite to the contrary, he wants to destroy the work of God, not his own evil, destructive works.