Mark 3:1-5

You can do the right thing for the wrong reason, the wrong thing for the right reason and then ultimately fulfilling God’s thing for His reason.

You can do the right thing because you want to be seen as good like the Scribes and Pharisees or the right thing like healing on the Sabbath for the good of someone else disregarding the strictest interpretation of the Law simply because you love God and you are obedient to Him.

Jesus laid down His unblemished life for all of us fulfilling Scripture for God’s ultimate purpose….because the Father loved His creation and Jesus loved His Father.

The Sabbath controversy continued as Jesus visited the synagogue. The Pharisees, watched Him closely, not to hear the words of life but to accuse Him. Christ put the meaning of the Sabbath to the test. Certainly it was more consistent with the intention of the law to restore this man’s afflicted hand, even on the Sabbath, than to destroy his hopes for the sake of keeping human tradition. 

Mark 3:1-5

3 And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. ² So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ And He said to the man who had the withered hand,  “Step forward.” ⁴ Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.