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The people were watching Jesus closely. They wanted to see whether he would heal the man on the day of worship so that they could accuse him of doing something wrong.
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So he told the man with the paralyzed hand, "Stand in the center [of the synagogue]."
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Then he asked them, "Is it right to do good or to do evil on the day of worship, to give a person back his health or to let him die?" But they were silent.
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Jesus was angry as he looked around at them. He was deeply hurt because their minds were closed. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand became normal again.
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The Pharisees left, and with Herod's followers they immediately plotted to kill Jesus.
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Jesus left with his disciples for the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,
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Jerusalem, Idumea, and from across the Jordan River, and from around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they had heard about everything he was doing.
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Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready so that the crowd would not crush him.
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He had cured so many that everyone with a disease rushed up to him in order to touch him.
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Whenever people with evil spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"
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He gave them orders not to tell people who he was.