About the same time Jesus walked through the corn-fields one Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and began to pick some ears of wheat and eat them.

But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: "Look! your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!"

And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

And there he saw a man with a withered hand. Some people asked Jesus whether it was allowable to work a cure on the Sabbath- -so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

But Jesus said to them: "Which of you, if he had only one sheep, and that sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath, would not lay hold of it and pull it out?

And how much more precious a man is than a sheep! Therefore it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath."

Pray, too, that your flight may not take place in winter, nor on a Sabbath;

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary had gone to look at the grave,