Mark 2:23–3:5

²³And it came to pass—he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields—and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears, ²⁴and the Pharisees said to him, ‘Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?’ ²⁵And he said to them, ‘Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him? ²⁶how he went into the house of God, (at ‘Abiathar the chief priest,’) and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?’ ²⁷And he said to them, ‘The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath, ²⁸so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.’

Chapter 3

¹And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, ²and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him. ³And he saith to the man having the hand withered, ‘Rise up in the midst.’ ⁴And he saith to them, ‘Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?’ but they were silent. ⁵And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, ‘Stretch forth thy hand;’ and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;