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

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

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?"

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

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