At that time Jesus was going, on the Sabbath, through the fields of grain; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pull the ears of grain, and to eat.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him: Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

And behold, a man was there that had a withered hand. And they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath-days? that they might accuse him.

And he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the Sabbath-day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?

How much better, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days.

Pray that your flight may not be in the winter, nor on the Sabbath:

And after the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the sepulcher.