OUR FATHER WHOSE SON RESCUED PEOPLE IN NEED EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK

Matthew chapter 12 verse 9 - 14 captures an amazing miracle performed by the Lord Jesus in the meeting place where religious people gathered.

Having just had a confrontation with religious leaders regarding the fact that His disciples were working on the Sabbath day picking grain to eat, the establishment figures began attempts  to entrap the Lord Jesus and so when He joined their Sabbath gathering, they asked Him a loaded question.

9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him.

11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

The Lord invoked a principle where, in spite of the strict rules against working on the Sabbath, people in urgent situations like if theit sheep fell into a pit, they were permitted to reach out and grab the sheep to pull it to safety.

Jesus argued that if they felt that they could rescue animals on the Sabbath day, would it not be even more permisible to rescue human beings on a Sabbath day?

After asking the question, Jesus said to the man with the withered hand to stretch out his jand and in full view of the attendees, an amazing healing miracle occured and the man's hand was restored to the same condition as his healthy arm.

The religious leaders were offended by Jesus and they felt threatened by His accumen and so they put their heads together to plan how to destroy Jesus.

These plots ultimately culminated in the arrest and killing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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