Atrophy
A man’s hand had withered, and he stood in front of people looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. Matthew 12 tells how Jesus answered with a plain question about a sheep fallen into a pit, then asked, “How much then is a man better than a sheep?” He told the man to stretch out his hand, and it “was restored whole, like as the other.” The wasting of the limb is the problem; the passage is mostly about mercy on the sabbath. Start with Matthew 12:9 and read to the end of the scene.
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Matthew
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 said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.