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On another Sabbath day Jesus went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man with a crippled right hand was there.
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The teachers of the law and the Pharisees were watching closely to see if Jesus would heal on the Sabbath day so they could accuse him.
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But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand up here in the middle of everyone." The man got up and stood there.
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Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath day: to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?"
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Jesus looked around at all of them and said to the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held out his hand, and it was healed.
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were very angry and discussed with each other what they could do to Jesus.
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At that time Jesus went off to a mountain to pray, and he spent the night praying to God.
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The next morning, Jesus called his followers to him and chose twelve of them, whom he named apostles:
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Simon (Jesus named him Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
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Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon (called the Zealot),
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Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who later turned Jesus over to his enemies.