Matthew:12:1-14

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* At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath . And His disciples were hungry , and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat . * And when the Pharisees saw it , they said to Him , "Look , Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath !" * But He said to them , "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry , he and those who were with him : * how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat , nor for those who were with him , but only for the priests ? * Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath , and are blameless ? * Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple . * But if you had known what this means , "I desire mercy and not sacrifice ,' you would not have condemned the guiltless . * For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath ." * Now when He had departed from there , He went into their synagogue . * And behold , there was a man who had a withered hand . And they asked Him , saying , "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath ?"--that they might accuse Him . * Then He said to them , "What man is there among you who has one sheep , and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath , will not lay hold of it and lift it out ? * Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep ? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath ." * Then He said to the man , "Stretch out your hand ." And he stretched it out , and it was restored as whole as the other . * Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him , how they might destroy Him .

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