Luke 6:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ The ·teachers of the law [scribes] and the Pharisees were watching closely to see if Jesus would heal on the Sabbath day so they could ·accuse [make a charge against] him. ⁸ But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the ·crippled [paralyzed; shriveled; ^Twithered] hand, “Stand up here in ·the middle [front] of everyone.” The man got up and stood there. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath day: to do good or to do ·evil [harm], to save a life or to destroy it?”