They proceeded to Capernaum, and on the very first Sabbath he went to the synagogue and taught.

He happened to be passing through the wheat fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick the heads of wheat as they made their way through.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,

and so the Son of Man is master even of the Sabbath."

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

Although it was now evening, yet since it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.