Jesus and the law: How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Matthew 12:12

The Gospel of Matthew recounts that Jesus taught and performed miracles in the region of Galilee, and one day, it happened that Jesus entered a synagogue in which there was a man with a paralyzed hand. And there Jesus came into conflict with the Pharisees, who were looking for an error in Jesus so that they could accuse him of being a false prophet and thus condemn him with the most severe penalty, which is established in the Book of Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 13:1-5).
And the Pharisees asked Jesus: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10. To which Jesus replied with wisdom: "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? How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath" Matthew 12:11-12. And with this answer, Jesus healed the man and thus performed a miracle on the Sabbath, which is the day consecrated to God according to the law of Moses.
With this resolution, Jesus was making clear what his spiritual message, the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, consisted of. Thus, as the Apostle Paul also taught in his epistles, Jesus explained that the Law of Moses is impossible to fulfill completely. And that mercy (compassion, kindness), fear of God (constancy, devotion), and love towards the neighbor, as spiritual gifts from God, should be considered more important than fulfilling imperatives or rules that are difficult to observe. And this makes profound common sense, as Jesus made clear with the example of the animal that fell into a well on the Sabbath. The wisdom of Jesus clashed with the hardness of the Pharisees' hearts.
Entering the Kingdom of God means living the spiritual gifts, and this means, in practical terms, that our neighbor matters. That is, the happiness of our neighbor is as important as our own. In other words, when the gifts are lived, a balance is sought between one's own needs and the needs of others, and the neighbor is not reduced to an object that must be manipulated to obtain hidden and egoistic ends. Therefore, the struggle for the Kingdom of God is the struggle for the common good, peace, and social harmony, among other things. And Jesus persevered to the very end for these ideas, giving his life on the cross.

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