mnt - Matthew:12:1-14

mnt@Matthew:12:1 @ At that time Jesus walked through the wheatfields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them.

mnt@Matthew:12:2 @ But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

mnt@Matthew:12:3 @ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

mnt@Matthew:12:4 @ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only?

mnt@Matthew:12:5 @ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

mnt@Matthew:12:6 @ "But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple.

mnt@Matthew:12:7 @ "And if you knew what this means, "It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice,

mnt@Matthew:12:8 @ "you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

mnt@Matthew:12:9 @ As he passed along he went into their synagogue, and there he saw a man with a withered hand.

mnt@Matthew:12:10 @ And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.)

mnt@Matthew:12:11 @ "Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day?

mnt@Matthew:12:12 @ "And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

mnt@Matthew:12:13 @ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

mnt@Matthew:12:14 @ The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.