A Withered Hand and Withered Minds

In the narrative of the healing of the man with a withered hand in Mark 3 (another healing on the Sabbath), Jesus teaches us the purpose of God's law, our connection to God related to the law and how using and relating God's law incorrectly withers the mind. While the man Jesus healed had a withered, deformed hand, the Pharisees had withered minds. This condition the Puritans who wrote the Geneva Bible attributed to them turning the purposes of God's law on their heads, using the law in a way they preferred rather than for God's very purposes. The passage also shows us Christ's 5-fold response to those withered minds-practical lessons all.