⁹ Then said Jesus unto them, `I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?'

³ and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

¹² How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

¹³ Then saith he to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand,' and he stretched `it' forth, and it was restored whole as the other.

⁴ And he saith to them, `Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?' but they were silent.

¹⁹ hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

²⁰ The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,

²² because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;

²³ if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?

⁵⁶ for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.