Part 9 (1/2)

”Stand up--up here, in front of everybody!”

When the man had cooing to ask you so,” he said ”If any one of you owned a sheep, and it fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn't you lift it out? And don't you think that a ainst the Law to heal a ood to somebody, on the Sabbath just the same as any other day!”

He looked around at the whole crowd He was angry now Would they actually let a man suffer one day more than was necessary? He turned back to the man with the useless hand

”Stretch out your hand!” he commanded

And when he spoke, the withered hand was healed, and ood as the other one

The Pharisees went out of the synagogue, and their faces were hard with anger

”He has gone too far!” they said to one another

”He is breaking all our good rules It is not safe for the country to have hiht to die!”

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They were afraid of what Jesus would do The Pharisees even called in some of their eneet rid of Jesus

Meanwhile Jesus had gone out of the city to be alone again On a lonely ht, he prayed to his Father all night long Back in the cityto take his life And out on the ood to men

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7 Slow to Understand

Not all the Pharisees treated Jesus as an enemy There was one of them, named Simon, who decided to have Jesus coht that the other Pharisees were too hard on Jesus

Perhaps he thought that heOr perhaps he was just curious Jesus had become very well known, and many people called hi to talk with the famous rabbi all afternoon

Whatever the reason was, Simon asked Jesus to come and have atheir dinner, a woh the open door She had not been invited Si her into his house, for everyone in town gave her a bad naood woman--not a nice woman at all,” people said They turned their eyes ahen they met her on the street

At any other time the woman would not have wanted to come to Simon's home, for no one likes to be stared at coldly and be put out of the house But today was different Jesus was there

She brought with her a box of ointht, when they wanted to honor an i her box of ointment, the woan to cry The tears rolled down her cheeks and dropped on Jesus' hot, dusty feet Then she wiped his feet with her hair and kissed thean to rub his feet with the soft white salve