Marcos 3

After Jesus healed a man with a withered arm on the Sabbath, Jewish leaders began to plan to kill him.

1 On another ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►, Jesus entered ◄the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place► again. There was a man there whose hand was shriveled. 2 Some men of the Pharisee sect watched him carefully in order to see whether he would heal the man ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►. They did this in order that if he healed the man, they would accuse him of disobeying their Jewish laws, because he worked ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►. 3 Jesus said to the man whose hand was shriveled, "Stand up here in front of everyone!" So the man stood up. 4 Then Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Do the laws that God gave Moses permit people to do good ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►, or do they permit people to do evil? Specifically, do his laws permit us to save a person’s life ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►, or do they permit us to let him die by refusing to help him?" But they did not reply. 5 He looked around at them angrily. He was very distressed that they were stubbornly not wanting to help the man. So he said to the man, "Reach out your hand!" When the man reached out his withered hand, his hand became all right again!