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.

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

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.