So they came to Capernaum, and as soon as the Sabbath Day came he went into the synagogue and began to teach.

One Sabbath he was walking along through the wheat-fields, and his disciples, as they began to make their way across, were pulling the heads of wheat.

"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

"The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."

And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands?

Toward sunset, as it was the preparation (that is the day preceding the Sabbath),

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought spices in order to go and anoint him.