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.

When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."

Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."

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?"

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?

And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

Pray that you may not have to fly in winter or on the sabbath,

At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.