Matthew 12:5-16
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5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
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6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
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7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
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9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
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10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
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11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
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12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
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13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
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14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
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15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
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16 And charged them that they should not make him known: