A Man with a Withered Hand

Matthew 12

⁹ He went on from there and _h entered their synagogue. ¹⁰ And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, _i "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" - _j so that they might accuse him. ¹¹ He said to them, "Which one of you who has a sheep, _k if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹² _l Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So _m it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And _n the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 12:9 - 14
   He went on from there and entered their synagogue.
   Mark 3:1 - 6
   Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
   Luke 6:6 - 11
   On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 12:9 - 14
   He went on from there and entered their synagogue.
   Mark 3:1 - 6
   Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
   Luke 6:6 - 11
   On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.
   
3. Cross References
   Luke 14:3
   And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?
   Matthew 12:2
   But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 11:54
   Lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
   Luke 20:20
   So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
   John 8:6
   This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 23:4 - 5
   If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
   Deuteronomy 22:4
   You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.
   
6. Cross References
   Matthew 6:26
   Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
   Matthew 10:31
   Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
   
7. Cross References
   John 5:16 - 17
   And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:4
   And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
   

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