A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                            A HANDFUL OF MUD PART IX

"I, Jesus, have just put mud on the eyes of a man born blind.... I then told him to wash himself at the Pool of Siloam.. So he has gone there... He will have been able to see after he had washed his eyes... I did not go with him to the Pool of Siloam... My disciples and I went our own way.... Today is the Sabbath Day.... I remember healing a man whose right hand was shriveled on a Sabbath Day...Not everyone was happy that this man's hand was restored... Nevertheless that is what I had come to do that day.... And so I did... Just as I healed a man blind from birth on a Sabbath Day.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jesus healed the shriveled hand of a man on another Sabbath Day...

 

                   ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                       A HANDFUL OF MUD PART IX

Jesus seems to have a habit of healing people on a Sabbath as you can read in Luke 6:6-11

On another Sabbath He went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus so they watched Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand. "Get up and stand in front of everyone." So he got up and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath; to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?" He looked round at them all, and then said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was completely restored. But they were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

It looks like the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law prefer to do evil on the Sabbath Day rather than do good since they became so angry with Jesus after He had healed a man....