The Withered Hand

Introduction: What is the Pharisees’ problem? 1 One Sabbath day Jesus was going through the grain fields and his disciples were hungry and began to pick

some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath." 7 Jesus answered, “If you had known what these words mean, `I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. Mk. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” 9 Then Jesus went into their synagogue and saw a man with a withered hand. Looking for an excuse to accuse

Jesus they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" So he said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of

it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched out his hand and it was completely restored, just as good as his other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.