Konteks 12:12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
12:13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored,1 as healthy as the other.
[12:13]1sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.
