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Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?
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But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.
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But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.
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For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.
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And he went from there into their Synagogue:
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And there was a man with a dead hand. And they put a question to him, saying, Is it right to make a man well on the Sabbath day? so that they might have something against him.
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And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?
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Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.
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Then said he to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and it was made as well as the other.
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But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.
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And Jesus, having knowledge of this, went away from there, and a great number went after him; and he made them all well,