Earlier, Jesus had upset the Pharisees when He told them that, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” And so, Jesus intentionally healed people on the Sabbath just to make His point clear. There was the man with the shriveled hand, the man with dropsy, (edema from excess fluids in the body) and the bent over & crippled woman…all healed by Jesus on the Sabbath. For nowhere in the Law does it disallow healing on the Sabbath…but rather it had been man’s “interpretation” of the Law and piling on of legalistic traditions that had put all the undue burdens on God’s people. A day of rest & blessings was what God intended the Sabbath to be…but man had twisted it into a strict conformity of religious rules.
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