One Sabbath day, Jesus was walking through a field of corn and His disciples were hungry, so they started to pick the corn and eat it. When the Pharisees saw them, they said to Jesus; Look, your disciples are breaking the law of the Sabbath day. Jesus answered, Haven't you read what David did when he and the people who were with him were hungry? He went into the house of God and ate the showbread, which wasn't lawful for him or his men to eat, but only for the priests (I Samuel 21:6). And haven't you read in the law how on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple work on the Sabbath and are blameless (Numbers 28:9-10)?

Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on another Sabbath and there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no way lift herself up. When Jesus saw her, He called her to Him, and said to her, Woman, You are loosed from your infirmity. He laid His hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. The ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said to 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. The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom satan has bound, look, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
On another Sabbath day, Jesus went into the synagogue and taught. The scribes and Pharisees watched Him, waiting to see if He would heal on the Sabbath day so they could accuse Him. There was a man whose hand was withered (crippled). The Pharisees asked Jesus, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days? Jesus said to the man, Stand up. Then He said to the Pharisees, Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it? But the Pharisees didn't answer. Jesus continued, Who among you, if you have one sheep and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn't lift it out? How much more is a man worth than a sheep? So, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath days.

He looked at the Pharisees with anger, and it grieved Him because they had no compassion and Jesus said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out and it was healed just like his other hand. Then the Pharisees went out and had a meeting with Herod's people against Jesus, conspiring how they could destroy Him. But Jesus knew it, so He left there and huge crowds followed Him and He healed them all on that Sabbath day and told them not to let anyone know so that the prophecy would be fulfilled that Isaiah wrote (Isaiah 42:1-4), Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

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