5 After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
5 And looking round upon them with anger, distressedD6984 at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored.
distressed - The Greek word is found here only. It is questioned whether it means 'sympathizing grief' (as LXX, Ps. 69.20;) or 'deep grief.' There is, I apprehend, sorrow for, with an intensive force in it; not sympathy, which is feeling with, but feeling what a state they were in, with grief for it.
5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardnessK6603of 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.
hardness: Or, blindness.
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