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It says and he entered that is Jesus entered the synagogue again and a man was there who had a withered hand, so they watched him closely whether he would heal him on the Sabbath.

so that they might accuse him and he said to the man who had the withered hand step forward, then he said to them to the Pharisees, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil to save life or to kill but they kept silent.

And when he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man stretch out your hand and he stretched it out.

And his hand was restored as whole as the other.

Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with and rodians against him how they might destroy him.

Let's pray our father as we enter into this time of worship into the hearing of your word, the preaching of your word.

Father I pray that the Holy Spirit would move amongst us today.

Move Upon Our Hearts as we listened intently to what you have to say, Lord through this passage of scripture.

Father, I pray that Lord that you would feel me.

Lord, with the spirit hide me behind the cross.

Give me the words to say, father, that would be pleasing to you, and edify and glorify your son, Jesus and edify your children.

Father, we ask you Lord again, to bless this time.

We ask all of these things in Christ, name and all of God's people said, amen, and amen.

As you know, if we approach through the starting to preach Through.

The Book of Mark, we have already seen how the Earthly Ministry of the Lord.

Jesus Christ was surrounded by a lot of disagreement.

He had a lot of conflict that had to deal with him.

A lot of controversies that he had to deal with time and time.

Again, it seems that, everything that Jesus did you made the Pharisees, the religious leaders, the Sanhedrin.

Very angry.

Every word that he spoke every work he did.

It just made them angrier and angrier in Magic matter of fact their hatred would eventually drive them to kill the Lord Jesus Christ.

But as we have seen, this is a total of five different conflicts that five different controversies that started back in chapter 1, when Jesus healed the leper in the synagogue, that was number one.

Number two was Jesus, hear a healing, the paralytic, man.

In in Chapter 2, that was Where Jesus said that this man's sin is Forgiven and that was another conflict with the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Pharisees.

They knew that was a declaration of this man.

Jesus, declaring him himself to be gone because God is only one who can forgive SIN.

Number 3. The third conflict was when Jesus fellowshipped in ate with the Sinners.

The tax collectors in the Pharisees thought that was just, you should never do such a thing and then 4th, we saw last week how Jesus and his disciples were in a wheat field and they were picking some of the wheat and the Colonel's and eating that Travis day and the Pharisees accused the disciples in Jesus working on the Sabbath.

Well, here in our passage of scripture, we find that fifth conflict in.

This is the one that seals the deal.

This is the one that says that you crossed the line you're out of here.

Speaking of the Pharisees against Jesus.

So this visit to the synagogue probably occurred on the same day that Jesus and his disciples were out there in the wheat field and a that confrontation that they had a with the Jews, then the Pharisees just followed Jesus here to the synagogue at they're looking for a way to trap him.

They're looking for a way to discredit him to at least in the least, destroy his ministry.

Back as we shall see here, they will stop at nothing to see that.

That happens.

They're doing everything they can to to destroy credit the ministry and life of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But we're going to see in our passage is that Jesus will not back off.

Jesus will not let up even though he knows where this is eventually going to leave him.

Because Jesus is really only consumed about following the will of his father.

He will not compromise one bit.

He will move ahead with his face toward the cross of Calvary for which he came.

Notice with me.

No. Number one, the context.

What is the context?

Well-versed one we see.

They're playing the Pharisees playing verse 1 towser's.

And he entered the synagogue again.

And a man was there who had a withered hand.

That's very interesting in Luke's account.

Remember, Luke is a physician.

He's a doctor.

He notes that this is a man's right hand.

This man most likely, as most people are right-handed, would made his situation much more debilitating.

The text does not explain what caused this man's Affliction.

Whether this man had an accident or whether this man had some type of disease of the Greek word translated withered Is a term that refers to atrophy a something that is wasting away.

It is use of dead plants that have dried up and wasted away.

And so it's this man's right hand is lifeless is wasted away is no good to him whatsoever.

Nothing about this in this day and time.

And the ancient time of this, when this man was living, this was very horrible.

This is a horrible situation.

It would have been very difficult for this man to perform any type of strenuous jobs or activities and so forth.

It's likely that this man was unable then to earn a living An ancient tradition suggests that this man was a stonemason.

And that he had somehow injured, his hand on the job.

He lost his ability to work.

Thus reducing himself to being nothing, more than a beggar.

But whatever, the cause of this man's with her hand, this man is obviously experiencing a severe limitation.

I would notice in verse 2.

What's the Pharisees were doing?

Versa 2 says so they watched him.

Closely, they watched Jesus closely whether he would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him.

Now, this watching that they're doing a Jesus, this is no casual observation.

Okay, this is not just just going to look know, this is very Sinister.

This is is intensive.

This is they are gazing.

They're hoping that Jesus did something wrong according to their Traditional Values.

As a matter of fact, many believe that this fellow with this man with the withered hand is actually a plant by the Pharisees to trap Jesus.

And if you read the text, that kind of the flow of the text is in line with this view because again, the scenario could have played out like this.

They found this man outside of the synagogue and said something like this.

Hey, wow.

Your hand, I heard about what happened at looks painful.

Now, you don't want to live like this, your whole life.

Do you say I want you to come to the synagogue?

There's a man named Jesus are.

He's already healed.

A lot of people.

Don't you come and maybe Jesus will heal you as well.

Now either they have planted this man or they had just spotted him in the crowd.

Either way.

They are watching Jesus intently.

They're watching to see what he will do.

They want to find evidence against Jesus that he is to them a lawbreaker.

They're looking for any excuse that they can to put it into his ministry there looking for some way of putting it into his life.

I think it's interesting how outwardly they pretended to want to protect the Integrity of the Sabbath.

But inwardly, they desperately wanted Jesus to break their Sabbath Traditions, so that they then could discredit him.

Now, why this man?

Why were they so fixated upon whether Jesus would heal this man?

That had a withered hand?

Well, they knew that the Old Testament law gave provision.