²⁷And he said to them, “The Sabbath was established for people, and not people for the Sabbath. ²⁸So then, the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

A Man with a Withered Hand Healed

3And he entered into the synagogue again, and a man who had a withered hand was there. ²And they were watching him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they could accuse him. ³And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come into the middle.” ⁴And he said to them, “Is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your^a hand.” And he stretched it^* out, and his hand was restored. ⁶And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians and began to conspire^b against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
bLiterally “began to give counsel”; the imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive (“began to”)