Jesus pretty much tears it with the Pharisees by healing a man on the Sabbath right in the synagogue. Performing such an act on Sabbath right in the synagogue would be the ancient Jewish equivalent of crashing the Pharisees party, drinking their beer, stealing their girlfriend, then kicking their dog on the way out the door. Not only did Jesus break their laws in their house, he did so by helping out somebody the Pharisees refused to help, thereby making the New Covenant look a heck of a lot more in line with a caring God than the Pharisees practices.
The Pharisees now knew Jesus *had- to be silenced... permanently.
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