At that time Jesus walked through the wheat fields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them.

But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

"you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.)

"Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day?

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

"But pray that your flight may not be in the winter; nor on a Sabbath;

At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came down to see the sepulcher, when lo!