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How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'
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Then saith he to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand,' and he stretched [it] forth, and it was restored whole as the other.
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And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,
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and Jesus having known, withdrew thence, and there followed him great multitudes, and he healed them all,
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and did charge them that they might not make him manifest,
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that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
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`Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,
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he shall not strive nor cry, nor shall any hear in the broad places his voice,
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a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,
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and in his name shall nations hope.'
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Then was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.