The Sabbath Healing which Determined Pharisaic Hostility (Mark 3:1-6 *, Luke 6:6-11). Mt. makes the Pharisees utter their question, and Jesus to reply, in words found in another connexion in Lk. (Luke 14:5). Matthew 12:12 a is peculiar to Matthew 12:12 b elevates and broadens the Pharisees-' question in Matthew 12:10. We may note that the Rabbis allowed that every case where life is in jeopardy supersedes the Sabbath, and that under certain conditions animals might be rescued on the Sabbath and on festivals.
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Matthew 12:9-14
9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
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.
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?
12 Howmuch then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand.
14 Then the Pharisees went out, and helda a council against him, how they might destroy him.