Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

And behold, a man was there that had a withered hand. And they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath-days? that they might accuse him.

And he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the Sabbath-day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?

How much better, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days.