2. They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him.
3. He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here before us.”
4. Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent.
5. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
6. The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
7. Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people [followed] from Galilee and from Judea.
8. Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
9. He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
10. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.