Moffatt(i)
1 At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the cornfields, and as his disciples were hungry they started to pull some ears of corn and eat them.
2 When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."
3 He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,
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 allowed to eat, but only the priests?
5 Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?
6 I tell you, One is here who is greater than the temple.
7 Besides, if you had known what this meant, I care for mercy not for sacrifice, you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.
8 For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."
9 Then he moved on from there and went into their synagogue.
10 Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"
11 He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in?
12 And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."
13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.
14 So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him;