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                                                                                       8  CONDUCT (cont'd)
 

12  Law & Tradition  (cont'd)
 My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself. He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
[The multitude: Thou hast a devil: who seeketh to kill thee?]
I did one work, and ye all marvel. For this cause hath Moses given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath? Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgement.                                                                                                                                                                                    j0716-24

[.... and behold, a man having a withered hand.]
[People in the synagogue: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?]
What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.
Stretch forth thy hand.
[And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other.]                                                                                              m1210-3

[And behold, a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up. And when Jesus saw her, he called her:]
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
[And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
The ruler of the synagogue: There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.]
Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?                                                                                                                                                                  l1311-6

Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?
[But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go.]
Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?                      l1403-5

[The Pharisees and the scribes: Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?]
Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
                This people honoureth me with their lips,

                But their heart is far from me.
                But in vain do they worship me,
                Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.   k0705-13/m1501-9

[The disciples of John: Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?]
Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast. And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the garment, and a worse rent is made. Neither do men put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.

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