About this time as Jesus passed through the cornfields on the sabbath-day, his disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat them.

And when the pharisees saw it they said to Him, See, thy disciples are doing what is not lawful for them to do on the sabbath.

what profane sort of work the priests do in the temple on the sabbath-days, and yet are blameless?

For the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.

they asked Him, if it were lawful to heal on the sabbath-days? that they might accuse Him.

But He said unto them, What man of you shall have one of his sheep fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, and will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

And of how much more worth is a man than a sheep? Sure then it is lawful to do good on the sabbath-days.

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

Now after the sabbath, in the dawning towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, to look at the sepulchre: