Parashat Shemot
The midwives lied to Pharaoh when he asked why they did not kill the male Hebrew babies. God blessed them and built up their families because they feared God more than man. Though they lied, they were innocent because they kept the greater command to preserve life.
Yeshua demonstrates the method for determining what is a greater commandment and what is a lesser commandment in Matthew 12. Far from abolishing a commandment, He upholds all of the commandments and shows that compassion is foundational to Torah.
The Babylonian Talmud (Yoma 85b) states, A man may profane one Sabbath, so that he may live to keep many Sabbaths. Rav Yehudah said in the name of Shmu’el, “If I had been there, I would have proved it [is permissible to break the Sabbath to save a life] with a better passage yet: ‘He shall live by them.’
You are to obey My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them—I am the LORD your God. So you are to keep My statutes and My ordinances. The one who does them will live by them. I am the LORD.
leviticus 18:4-5