In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? ”
There he saw a man who had a shriveled hand, and in order to accuse him they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? ”
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? ”
Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to kill? ” But they were silent.
If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?
And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him:
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.