JESUS spent his whole life doing good. He always helped those who were in trouble. He seemed to know of the sick and suffering of the land and was always anxious to heal them.

At one time he went into the meeting-place of the Jews and saw a man there who had a hand so withered that he could not open it or stretch it out. Now, there was a Jewish law that said no work should be done on the Sabbath. The wicked people watched Jesus to see if he would heal this man on the Sabbath-day.

HEALING THE BLIND

Jesus knew their thoughts, and so he asked the people, “If any of you had a sheep which should fall into a pit on the Sabbath, would you not help it out?” Then he said that if it was right to help a sheep, it was much more so to be good to man.

After that he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand,” and he stretched it out.