Matthew 12:1-14 About this time, as Jesus was walking through corn fields on the sabbath days, his disciples were hungry and began to pluck some ears, and eat them.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ About this time, as Jesus was walking through corn fields on the sabbath days, his disciples were hungry and began to pluck some ears, and eat them. ² When the Pharisees saw this they said to him, See Thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath. ³ Whereupon he said to them, Have you not read, what David did when he was hungry, and they who were with him? ⁴ How he went to the house of God and ate the presence loaves, which it was not lawful for him or his company to eat, but only for the priests? ⁵ Or have you not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath and are blameless? ⁶ Now I say to you, There is one here greater than the temple. ⁷ And if you had known the meaning of this,. "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice," you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸ For the son of man is lord even of the sabbath. ⁹ Having departed thence, he went into their synagogue ¹⁰ and lo! there was a man there who had his hand withered. And they asked him with a design to accuse him; "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?" ¹¹ And he said to them, What man is there among you, who having one sheep, if it fall into a pit on the sabbath days, will not take hold of it and lift it up? ¹² Of how much greater value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbaths. ¹³ Then he said to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it out. And his hand was restored sound as the other. ¹⁴ Thereupon the Pharisees went out and conspired against him that they might destroy him.