And they walked into Capernaum. On the next Sabbath Jesus went into the Synagogue and began to teach.

One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

Then Jesus added: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

And to the people he said: "Is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath--or harm? to save a life, or destroy it?"

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the Synagogue; and the people, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get this?" they said, "and what is this wisdom that has been given him? and these miracles which he is doing?

The evening had already fallen, when, as it was the Preparation Day--the day before the Sabbath--

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.