7. And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless. [Hos. 6:6; Matt. 9:13.]
8. For the Son of Man is Lord [even] of the Sabbath.
9. And going on from there, He went into their synagogue.
10. And behold, a man was there with one withered hand. And they said to Him, Is it lawful or allowable to cure people on the Sabbath days?–that they might accuse Him.
11. But He said to them, What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a pit or ditch on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?
12. How much better and of more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and allowable to do good on the Sabbath days.
13. Then He said to the man, Reach out your hand. And the man reached it out and it was restored, as sound as the other one.