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If you knew what `I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifice' meant, you would not condemn the innocent.
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For the Son of Man is Lord of Shabbat!"
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Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue.
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A man there had a shriveled hand. Looking for a reason to accuse him of something, they asked him, "Is healing permitted on Shabbat?"
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But he answered, "If you have a sheep that falls in a pit on Shabbat, which of you won't take hold of it and lift it out?
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How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore, what is permitted on Shabbat is to do good." Then to the man he said, "Hold out your hand." As he held it out, it
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became restored, as sound as the other one.
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But the P'rushim went out and began plotting how they might do away with Yeshua.
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Aware of this, he left that area. Many people followed him; and he healed them all
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but warned them not to make him known.
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This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Yesha`yahu the prophet,