Luke 6:1–11

LORD OF THE SABBATH

6On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields.ⁱ His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. ²But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”^j

³Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry—⁴how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?^k He even gave some to those who were with him.”^{l 5}Then he told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

⁶On another Sabbath^m he entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was shriveled. ⁷The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely,ⁿ to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against him.^{o 8}But he knew their thoughts^p and told the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand here.”^C So he got up and stood there. ⁹Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”^{q 10}After looking around at them all,^r he told him, “Stretch out your hand.”^s He did, and his hand was restored.^{D 11}They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.