Mark 2:23–3:5

²³And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears. ²⁴And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful? ²⁵And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him, ²⁶how he entered into the house of God, in the section of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him? ²⁷And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath; ²⁸so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.

Chapter 3

¹And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there a man having his hand dried up. ²And they watched him if he would heal him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. ³And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up and come into the midst. ⁴And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent. ⁵And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.