The narrative about the healing of a withered hand on the Sabbath can be looked at from more than one perspective. It concerns a miracle of healing. Yet there is something specific: it is a healing on the Sabbath. And also in this way the heart of the matter has not yet been touched upon: it is a healing before the forum of people who prepare a formal charge against Jesus, and who attempt to gather the grounds for it on this Sabbath. This special circumstance dominates the entire action. The best perspective from which we can choose to follow this story is that of the aggressive Pharisees. It is they whom Jesus confronts. The healing itself is only a part of this confrontation.¹