nsb - Matthew:12:1-14

nsb@Matthew:12:1 @ Jesus disciples were hungry. It was Sabbath day and yet Jesus and his disciples went through the grain fields plucking ears and eating them.

nsb@Matthew:12:2 @ The Pharisees saw it and said to him: »Your disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.«

nsb@Matthew:12:3 @ He replied to them: »Have you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

nsb@Matthew:12:4 @ »He entered into the house of God, and he and his companions ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for them to eat. It was only lawful for the priests.

nsb@Matthew:12:5 @ »Have you read the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

nsb@Matthew:12:6 @ »I say to you, one greater than the Temple is here.

nsb@Matthew:12:7 @ »If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.

nsb@Matthew:12:8 @ »For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.«

nsb@Matthew:12:9 @ He left and went into their synagogue.

nsb@Matthew:12:10 @ There he saw a man who had a withered hand. They asked him if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? They wanted to accuse him.

nsb@Matthew:12:11 @ He said to them: »Which of you having one sheep, if this sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath day, will not get it and lift it out.

nsb@Matthew:12:12 @ »How much more value is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day!«

nsb@Matthew:12:13 @ Then he said to the man: »Stretch out your hand.« He stretched it out and it was restored whole like the other.

nsb@Matthew:12:14 @ The Pharisees left and took counsel against him, to decide how they might destroy him.