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Healing the man with a withered hand

Miracle carried out by Jesus according to the Bible

Jesus heals a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath in one of his miracles recounted in the Gospels, namely in Matthew 12:9-13, Mark 3:1-6, and Luke 6:6-11.

Biblical accounts

On a Sabbath, in Luke, "another Sabbath",

He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.

According to Mark's account, the Pharisees then went out and began to plot with the Herodians, their "natural enemies", how they might kill Jesus.

Tradition

Jesus Heals the Man with a Withered Hand by Ilyas Basim Khuri Bazzi Rahib (1684)

According to St. Jerome, in the Gospel which the Nazareni and Ebionites use, which was written in Hebrew and according to Jerome was thought by many to be the original text of the Gospel of Matthew, the man with the withered hand, was a mason.

Commentary

Archbishop John McEvilly notes that in the question of Jesus, He implies that "to omit saving our brethren, when in great danger, is the same as destroying them; that such omission was doing evil." They could not answer him (Mark 3:4) because "it could not be denied that it was lawful to do good, and also that it was lawful, 'to save life.

Venerable Bede gives an allegorical commentary on the miracle writing, "Adam plucking the forbidden fruit, dried up the hand of the human race, that is, he deprived man of the power to be fruitful in good works. Christ, however, restored that power by stretching forth His hands on the cross."

Arts

This miracle is the subject of the spoken sermon portion of composer John Adams' 1973 work, "Christian Zeal and Activity".

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{{bibleref2. Mark. 3:1-6. NIV
{{bibleref2. Luke. 6:6-11. NIV
{{bibleref2. Matthew. 12:9-13. NIV
when Jesus went into the [[synagogue]], the [[Pharisees]] and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse him, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath and (in [[Matthew's Gospel]]) they asked him: "Is it [[Mosaic law. lawful]] to heal on the Sabbath?" In [[Mark's Gospel. Mark]] and [[Luke's Gospel. Luke]] it is Jesus who asks whether it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath. By way of reply in the Gospel of Matthew, appealing to "the [[Humanity (virtue). human sentiment]] of his hearers",Allison, D., ''56. Matthew'', in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), [https://b-ok.org/dl/946961/8f5f43 The Oxford Bible Commentary] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-11-22 , p. 860)
{{bibleref2. Mark. 3:6. NKJV
Lapide, Cornelius. (1889). "The Great Biblical Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide".
MacEvilly, Rev. John. (1898). "An Exposition of the Gospels". Benziger Brothers.

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