In the story where Jesus heals the man with the shriveled hand on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6, Luke 6:6-11)
The Pharisees who saw themselves as strict observers of the law, asked Jesus “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” Jesus, always tried to teach and enlighten the minds, He said to them, “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.”
Notice the Pharisees, who are so rigid in keeping the law, not only for themselves but for everyone else. They will quickly point out other people's missteps, let's keep the plank out of our own eyes (Matthew 7). Also notice that at the end of the story, they were plotting how they might kill Jesus, which would be breaking the law. Rather hypocritical, don't you think? One more thing concerning these Pharisees, they seem to be in many of these stories that are recorded in the Bible, you would think that being around Jesus so much that many of them would have become followers after seeing the many miraculous things that Jesus did. Are we doing the same thing, seeing but not seeing what God has done for us?