"Stretch Out Your Hand!" Echo and Metalepsis in Mark's Sabbath Healing Controversy.

This article presents an examination into the scholastic interpretation of the New Testament Gospel story of Jesus Christ healing the man with a crippled hand on the Sabbath as depicted in Mark 3:1-6. The author focuses on the rhetorical elements of Mark's account, suggesting that the literary devices of echo and metalepsis are utilized by the writer for effect.