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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 12:9 - 12:9
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Mat 12:9-21. The healing of a withered hand on the Sabbath Day and retirement of Jesus to avoid danger. ( = Mar 3:1-12; Luk 6:6-11).
Healing of a withered hand (Mat 12:9-14).
And when he was departed thence - but “on another sabbath” (Luk 6:6).
he went into their synagogue - “and taught.” He had now, no doubt, arrived in Galilee; but this, it would appear, did not occur at Capernaum, for after it was over, He “withdrew Himself,” it is said “to the sea” (Mar 3:7), whereas Capernaum was at the sea.
And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered - disabled by paralysis (as in 1Ki 13:4). It was his right hand, as Luke (Luk 6:6) graphically notes.
And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him - Mark and Luke (Mar 3:2; Luk 6:7) say they “watched Him whether He would heal on the sabbath day.” They were now come to the length of dogging His steps, to collect materials for a charge of impiety against Him. It is probable that it was to their thoughts rather than their words that Jesus addressed Himself in what follows.