Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today, we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

It's another Sabbath and Jesus is about to have conflict again with the religious leaders on a

holy day. Not because of him him but because of them you see if

there's if there's if there's enmity between us and God it's never God's fault it's always ours

he's always the same and he's always holy and right we get our attitudes out of sorts

the Bible says in Mark chapter 3 verse verse one, and he entered again into the

synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand, and they watched him whether he would

heal him on the Sabbath day that they might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the

withered hand, stand forth, and he saith unto them, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days or to do

evil? To save life or to kill, but they held their peace?

May I pause our reading just a moment and point out to you that Jesus turned the questions around to them?

Remember in Mark chapter 2 they keep firing questions at him.

Well, now he answers their questions with a question and a question they could not answer. Was it proper to do good on the

Sabbath day or to do evil? We're taught in scripture that him that knoweth to do good and do it

not to him it is sin. And so he basically backs them into a corner. The Bible says in verse five,

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. Could I point out to you

that in this context of this amazing miracle miracle Jesus is actually angry. The Bible says

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