Verse 9

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]?

Referenced Verses

• Luke 14:3 : 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‹Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?›
• John 7:19-23 : 19 ‹Did not Moses give you the law, and› [yet] ‹none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?› 20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, ‹I have done one work, and ye all marvel.› 22 ‹Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.› 23 ‹If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?›
• Matt 12:12-13 : 12 ‹How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.› 13 Then saith he to the man, ‹Stretch forth thine hand.› And he stretched [it] forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
• Mark 3:4 : 4 And he saith unto them, ‹Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?› But they held their peace.
• Luke 9:56 : 56 ‹For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save› [them]. And they went to another village.