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Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
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I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
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And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath."
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And he went on from there, and entered their synagogue.
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And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?" so that they might accuse him.
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He said to them, "What man of you, if he has one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
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Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath."
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Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, whole like the other.
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But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.
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Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all,