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6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is aOne greater than the temple.  
7 But if you had known what this means, a‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.  
8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”  

Healing on the Sabbath

9 aNow 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, a“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?
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Matthew 12:8

For the Son of man - Therefore they are guiltless, were it only on this account, that they act by my authority, and attend on me in my ministry, as the priests attended on God in the temple: is Lord even of the Sabbath - This certainly implies, that the Sabbath was an institution of great and distinguished importance; it may perhaps also refer to that signal act of authority which Christ afterward exerted over it, in changing it from the seventh to the first day of the week. If we suppose here is a transposition of Matthew 12:7-8, then Matthew 12:8 is a proof of Matthew 12:6.




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