4. Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.
5. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
6. Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
7. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.
8. When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon.
9. Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him.
10. For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him.
11. Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
12. But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.