Matthew 12:1-13

112At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to 3pick the heads of grain and eat. 2Now when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what 4is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!” 3But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions-- 4how he entered the house of God, and 5they ate the 6consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple 7violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent? 6But I say to you that something 8greater than the temple is here. 7But if you had known what this 9means: ‘10I desire 11compassion, 12rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned 13the innocent. 8For 14the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

915Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned 16Jesus, asking, “17Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”--so that they might bring charges against Him. 11But He said to them, “18What man 19is there among you who 20has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? 1221How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do 22good on the Sabbath.” 13Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” 23He stretched it out, and it was restored to 24normal, like the other.