3And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
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And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
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.
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?
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. …
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?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In this passage of story we find, I. That the Son of man came eating and drinking , conversing familiarly with all sorts of people; not declining the society of publicans, though they were of ill fame , nor of Pharisees, though they bore him ill will , but accepting the friendly invitations both of the one and the other, that, if possible, he might do good to both . Here he went into the house of…
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