7. If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.
8. The Human One is Lord of the Sabbath."
9. Jesus left that place and went into their synagogue.
10. A man with a withered hand was there. Wanting to bring charges against Jesus, they asked, "Does the Law allow a person to heal on the Sabbath?"
11. Jesus replied, "Who among you has a sheep that falls into a pit on the Sabbath and will not take hold of it and pull it out?
12. How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So the Law allows a person to do what is good on the Sabbath."
13. Then Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he did and it was made healthy, just like the other one.
14. The Pharisees went out and met in order to find a way to destroy Jesus.
15. Jesus knew what they intended to do, so he went away from there. Large crowds followed him, and he healed them all.
16. But he ordered them not to spread the word about him,
17. so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: