Healing On the Sabbath

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There were at least two healing miracles that Jesus performed on the Sabbath.

One was the woman who had suffered from a blood disorder for 18 years (Luke 13:10-17) and the other was a man who was blind from birth (John 9). Both times, the leading Jews were FURIOUS and accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath.

It's hard for me to understand how people who claim to love God could be so hard hearted. Here this woman was, in Luke 13, so disabled, she couldn't stand up straight but was doubled over because of pain...and this man who had been blind from birth...who had never seen the light of day... Jesus healed them both, and for that, they wanted to kill Him!

I think these stories show how hard hearted the leading Jews were (as a whole) and what JEALOUSY leads to. They were so jealous of the power Jesus had and of the influence He had over the common people, that they just couldn't/wouldn't see straight!

A good lesson for us to stay far away from JEALOUSY.
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There were at least two healing miracles that Jesus performed on the Sabbath.

One was the woman who had suffered from a blood disorder for 18 years (Luke 13:10-17) and the other was a man who was blind from birth (John 9). Both times, the leading Jews were FURIOUS and accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath.

It's hard for me to understand how people who claim to love God could be so hard hearted. Here this woman was, in Luke 13, so disabled, she couldn't stand up straight but was doubled over because of pain...and this man who had been blind from birth...who had never seen the light of day... Jesus healed them both, and for that, they wanted to kill Him!

I think these stories show how hard hearted the leading Jews were (as a whole) and what JEALOUSY leads to. They were so jealous of the power Jesus had and of the influence He had over the common people, that they just couldn't/wouldn't see straight!

A good lesson for us to stay far away from JEALOUSY.
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Also ... the man with the withered hand ...

Mark 3

1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.

2 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.”

4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

6 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
 
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There were at least two healing miracles that Jesus performed on the Sabbath.

One was the woman who had suffered from a blood disorder for 18 years (Luke 13:10-17) and the other was a man who was blind from birth (John 9). Both times, the leading Jews were FURIOUS and accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath.

True - Jesus' enemies falsely accused him often of being in rebellion against the Word of God.
 
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There were at least two healing miracles that Jesus performed on the Sabbath.

One was the woman who had suffered from a blood disorder for 18 years (Luke 13:10-17) and the other was a man who was blind from birth (John 9). Both times, the leading Jews were FURIOUS and accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath.

It's hard for me to understand how people who claim to love God could be so hard hearted. Here this woman was, in Luke 13, so disabled, she couldn't stand up straight but was doubled over because of pain...and this man who had been blind from birth...who had never seen the light of day... Jesus healed them both, and for that, they wanted to kill Him!

I think these stories show how hard hearted the leading Jews were (as a whole) and what JEALOUSY leads to. They were so jealous of the power Jesus had and of the influence He had over the common people, that they just couldn't/wouldn't see straight!

A good lesson for us to stay far away from JEALOUSY.
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It also shows a lack of allowance for mercy in their own handwritten ordinances, dogmas, decrees, and rulings which they tacked onto what is actually written in the Torah. In another thread we were recently talking about the man who had an infirmity for thirty eight years, (John 5), who was told to take up his bed (mattress or bed-roll) and walk in the Shabbat.

There isn't anything specifically written against taking up your bed-roll and walking with it in the Shabbat, (the man out gathering sticks was doing it for himself and his own purposes and benefit), and especially under extenuating circumstances such as just having been healed after a thirty-eight year infirmity.

We can perhaps understand this ruling of the Sanhedrin, Elders, rulers of the people, etc., in normal circumstances: but in this case the bed, mattress, or bed-roll, would have been deemed to still be unclean. Would it be proper for the man who had just been healed to rise up, and walk away, and leave the unclean mattress for someone else to deal with? It would not be right because whoever else touched it would become unclean, (or at the very least, ritually unclean).

The ordinance in this case, which was tacked-on over and above the Torah, left no room for mercy in this extenuating circumstance.

As for jealousy: it could indeed be also that they were playing selective enforcement with their own regulations and ordinances out of envy and jealousy.
 
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As for jealousy: it could indeed be also that they were playing selective enforcement with their own regulations and ordinances out of envy and jealousy.

This would be my first suspect. Yahshua was threatening their power.
 
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