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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath in the synagogue and shows how he feels about what the Pharisees had done with the Sabbath rules. The Pharisees and Herodians begin planning to put Jesus to death.
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 # a man with a withered hand
 
 "a man with a crippled hand"