⁹ if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

⁷ He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

²³ If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?

³² Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

¹⁵ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

¹⁶ having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Christ.

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.