Contradictions and Paradoxes in Mark 3:2

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Mark 3:2 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Mark 3:2. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Mark, some people were watching Jesus to see if He would help someone on a special rest day, hoping to catch Him doing something wrong. They wanted to get Jesus in trouble.

Mark 3:2: And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

Contradiction with Luke 6:9

Unlike Mark 3:2, where critics watch to accuse Jesus, in Luke 6:9, Jesus proactively questions whether it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, challenging the accusers' logic.

Luke 6:9: Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?

Contradiction with Matthew 12:12

This verse suggests it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath, while Mark 3:2 indicates that Jesus was being watched for healing on the Sabbath to accuse him.

Matthew 12:12: How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Contradiction with John 7:23

Unlike the adversarial observation in Mark 3:2, this verse justifies healing on the Sabbath by comparing it to the accepted practice of circumcision on that day.

John 7:23: If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? [that...: or, without breaking the law of Moses]
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