AT that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the sabbath; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pick the heads and eat.

And the Pharisees seeing it, said to him, Behold, your disciples do what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.

Or have you not read in the law, that the priests profane the sabbath in the temple, and are blameless?

for the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

and behold a man having a withered hand [was there]. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.

And he said to them, What man is there of you having one sheep, who if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

How much then is a man better than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.

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

And after the sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day of the week, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the tomb.