Jesus teaches Kingdom Ethics
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Matthew 12.9-14
Then Jesus went over to their synagogue,
where he noticed a man with a deformed hand. The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Does the law permit a person to work by healing on the Sabbath?” (They were hoping he would say yes, so they could bring charges against him.)
And he answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a well on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you work to pull it out? Of course you would.
And how much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Yes, the law permits a person to do good on the Sabbath.”
Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored, just like the other one!
Then the Pharisees called a meeting to plot how to kill Jesus.
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life or to destroy it?” (Luke 6:8, 9) or as in Mark (3:4) “to kill?” He thus shuts them up to this startling alternative: ‘Not to do good, when it is in the power of our hand to do it, is to do evil; not to save life, when we can, is to kill’—and must the letter of the sabbath-rest be kept at this expense? This unexpected thrust shut their mouths. By this great ethical principle our Lord, we see, held Himself bound, as Man.
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life or to destroy it?” (Luke 6:8, 9) or as in Mark (3:4) “to kill?” He thus shuts them up to this startling alternative: ‘Not to do good, when it is in the power of our hand to do it, is to do evil; not to save life, when we can, is to kill’—and must the letter of the sabbath-rest be kept at this expense? This unexpected thrust shut their mouths. By this great ethical principle our Lord, we see, held Himself bound, as Man.
Brown, D., Fausset, A. R., & Jamieson, R. (n.d.). A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Matthew–John: Vol. V (p. 71). William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited.
“When He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He saith unto the man” (Mark 3:5).
Brown, D., Fausset, A. R., & Jamieson, R. (n.d.). A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Matthew–John: Vol. V (p. 71). William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited.
The Pharisees were outraged. In their fury, they determined to kill Jesus. Ironically, the Pharisees had accused Jesus of breaking their law about healing on the Sabbath, yet they were planning (on the Sabbath) to kill him. Their hatred drove them to plot murder—an act that was clearly against God’s law.
Barton, B., Comfort, P., Osborne, G., Taylor, L. K., & Veerman, D. (2001). Life Application New Testament Commentary (p. 57). Tyndale.