then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent.
Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?"
They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest.
He said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise and come forward;"
Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored.