Matthew 12:1-14 At that same time Jesus walked one Sabbath through the wheat fields, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat and eat them.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At that same time Jesus walked one Sabbath through the wheat fields, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat and eat them. ² But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!" ³ But he said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his companions were hungry? ⁴ How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests? ⁵ Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath? ⁶ But I tell you, there is something greater than the Temple here! ⁷ But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. ⁸ For the Son of Man is master of the Sabbath." ⁹ And he left the place and went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ There was a man there with one hand withered. And in order to get a charge to bring against him, they asked him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?" ¹¹ But he said to them, "Who among you if he has even a single sheep and it falls into a hole on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹² And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and it was restored and became as well as the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees left the synagogue and consulted about him, with a view to putting him to death.