9Then 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?
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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.
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. …
And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? …
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)These two passages of story we had both in Matthew and Mark, and they were there laid together ( Matt. 12:1 ; Mark 2:23 ; 3:1 ), because, though happening at some distance of time from each other, both were designed to rectify the mistakes of the scribes and Pharisees concerning the sabbath day, on the bodily rest of which they laid greater stress and required greater strictness than the Law-giver…
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