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Matthew 12:12-14
New English Translation
Matthew 12:12-14
New English Translation
12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored,[a] as healthy as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate[b] him.
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- Matthew 12:13 sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.
- Matthew 12:14 tn Grk “destroy.”
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