Luke 6:9

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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?

And Jesus answered and spoke to the

lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”

How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”] And they went on to another village.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.