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Then he added, "The Son of Man has authority over the day of worship."
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On another day of worship, Jesus went into a synagogue to teach. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.
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The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely. They wanted to see whether he would heal the man on the day of worship so that they could find a way to accuse him of doing something wrong.
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But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he told the man with the paralyzed hand, "Get up, and stand in the center [of the synagogue]!" The man got up and stood there.
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Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you--what is the right thing to do on a day of worship: to do good or evil, to give a person his health or to destroy it?"
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He looked around at all of them and then said to the man, "Hold out your hand." The man did so, and his hand became normal again.
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The scribes and Pharisees were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.
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At that time Jesus went to a mountain to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
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When it was day, he called his disciples. He chose twelve of them and called them apostles.
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They were Simon (whom Jesus named Peter) and Simon's brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
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Matthew, Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus), Simon (who was called the Zealot),