Healing the man with a withered hand

Jesus heals a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath in one of his miracles recounted in the Gospels, namely in Matthew 12:9-13, Mark 3:1-6, and Luke 6:6-11.

By way of reply in the Gospel of Matthew, appealing to "the human sentiment of his hearers",[5] He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?

According to St. Jerome, in the Gospel which the Nazareni and Ebionites use, which was written in Hebrew and according to Jerome was thought by many to be the original text of the Gospel of Matthew, the man with the withered hand, was a mason.And he besought Jesus saying, "I was a mason, gaining my livelihood by my hands: I beseech Thee, O Jesus, that Thou wouldst restore me to soundness, that I may not shamefully beg my bread.

"[8]Archbishop John McEvilly notes that in the question of Jesus, He implies that "to omit saving our brethren, when in great danger, is the same as destroying them; that such omission was doing evil."

"[8] This miracle is the subject of the spoken sermon portion of composer John Adams' 1973 work, "Christian Zeal and Activity".