Mark 3:4
Good News Translation
Then he asked the people, "What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or to destroy it?" But they did not say a thing.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

Contemporary English Version
Then he asked, "On the Sabbath should we do good deeds or evil deeds? Should we save someone's life or destroy it?" But no one said a word.

New American Bible
Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

Is it.

Mark 2:27,28 And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. . . .

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Matthew 12:10-12 And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. . . .

Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?

Luke 13:13-17 And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. . . .

Luke 14:1-5 And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him. . . .

But.

Mark 9:34 But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest.

Context
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
3And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst. 4And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace. 5And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.…
Cross References
Mark 3:3
And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.

Mark 3:5
And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

Mark 3:3
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