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Graphic-novel illustration of a man extending his restored hand before the designed Jesus in a synagogue.
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Matthew 12:9-14

It Is Lawful to Do Good

Mercy on the Sabbath and True Family · Matthew 12

Story guide: Jesus calls the man forward and shows that doing good on the Sabbath is lawful.

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9And departing from there, he went into their synagogue.

10And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they might accuse him.

11But he said to them, “Which man among you, if he has one sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?”

12How much more valuable, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

13Then he says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other one.

14But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

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